Title: 17 Dogs

Author: Chambers, Ron Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2002

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters five male two acts

After 40 years of simmering rage, a man betrayed by his former business partner has a chance to exact revenge.

Title: 17 Dogs in - CTR No. 136 / PER Author: Chambers, Ron Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2002

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters five male two acts

After 40 years of simmering rage, a man betrayed by his former business partner has a chance to exact revenge.

Title: 1984 Dalmar Biker War, The

Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright - Canadian eight characters three male; five female three acts

Running time: 90 minutes; 1 simple set.

The staff of a small rural town must fend off an attack by a biker gang.

The 1984 Dalmar Biker War is a great play for small town theatre troupes as it features characters and dialogue instantly recognizable by audiences in rural communities. This single-set play Title: 21: Growing Up Down A new one act musical play Author: Miller, Michele Makrouhi Publisher: Dizzy Emu Publishing 2015

Description:

roy musical play - musical theatre - romance - disabilities - Down syndrome - Alberta playwright eight characters; voice doubles; extras three male; five female; two female singing voice doubles; one male singing voice double one act

running time: approx. 85 min.

Jane is a young woman with Down syndrome who dreams of a career on the stage. She lives with her devoted mother, Elaine, who thinks Jane's goals are unrealistic. New to town is Bob, the newly widowed, alcoholic father of Max, who is also a young man with Down syndrome. Jane meets Max at the musical theatre class she attends weekly, along with eight other Down syndrome students. A

Title: 3... 2... 1 in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: Cuckow, Nathan Craddock, Chris Publisher: Signature Editions 2006

Description:

roy tragicomedy - Alberta playwright all male cast; two characters two male one act

Two guys, Clint and Kyle, armed with several cases of beer, Jack Daniels, a cornucopia of pharmaceuticals and broken dreams, lock themselves in a Wetaskiwin garage the day of their friend Danny’s funeral. As the coke is snorted, the joints rolled and the booze chugged, the emotional walls, built up brick by brick over years come tumbling down as Clint and Kyle fumblingly begin to explore the emotions which have festered since childhood.

Title: Abby's Place in - Voices of the Land / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: AU Press 2012

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright - Alberta three characters two male; one female fifteen scenes

The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In "Abby's Place" a dying woman draws emotional strength from a lake that she understands as her final resting place. Title: Aberhart Summer, The

Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: NeWest Press 1999

Description:

roy comedy - historical - Alberta playwright - Canadian eleven characters eight male; three female two acts

"Based on Bruce Allen Powe's 1984 novel [of the same name], Massing's marvelous play is at once a gripping Alberta history lesson, a sweetly nostalgic comedy and a cracking-good-murder-mystery, all rolled up into one big, bright ball of theatrical energy and verve..." Calgary Herald

"At its best, Aberhart Summer is a vivid and unsentimental depiction of small-town Canadian life in

Title: Aberhart Summer, The

Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: NeWest Press 1999

Description:

roy Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - comedy eleven characters eight male; three female two acts

"Based on Bruce Allen Powe's 1984 novel [of the same name], Massing's marvelous play is at once a gripping Alberta history lesson, a sweetly nostalgic comedy and a cracking-good-murder-mystery, all rolled up into one big, bright ball of theatrical energy and verve..." Calgary Herald "At its best, Aberhart Summer is a vivid and unsentimental depiction of small-town Canadian life in the 1930's and the effect is hauntingly familiar and oddly foreign at the same time...It was the hit

Title: Aberhart Summer, The

Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: NeWest Press 1999

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright eleven characters eight male; three female two acts

"Based on Bruce Allen Powe's 1984 novel [of the same name], Massing's marvelous play is at once a gripping Alberta history lesson, a sweetly nostalgic comedy and a cracking-good-murder-mystery, all rolled up into one big, bright ball of theatrical energy and verve..." - Calgary Herald

"At its best, Aberhart Summer is a vivid and unsentimental depiction of small-town Canadian life in Title: Abucuck A one-act stage drama Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright all male cast; two characters two male one act (nine scenes)

In 1617 Abacuck Prickett faces death by hanging for the pivotal role he played in the tragic, final voyage of Henry Hudson.

Title: Actually Funny, Actually Poignant Monologues for Adults and Seniors

Author: Miller, Michele Makrouhi Publisher: Dizzy Emu Publishing 2016

Description:

original monologues - Alberta playwright - adults - seniors

Contains monologues written specifically for adults and seniors.

The monologues and scenes in the Breathtakingly Original Series were written specifically for the age ranges and genders specified. That said, many have been adapted for both genders, and adapted for the handicap-able actor as well. They may be used, studied, performed in Universities, High Schools, Junior Schools, Senior Centers, and Acting Schools, private or public.

Title: Actually Funny, Actually Poignant Monologues for the Handicap-Able Actor

Author: Miller, Michele Makrouhi Publisher: Dizzy Emu Publishing 2016

Description:

original monologues - Alberta playwright - disabled

Contains monologues written specifically for actors with disabilities.

The monologues and scenes in the Breathtakingly Original Series were written specifically for the age ranges and genders specified. That said, many have been adapted for both genders, and adapted for the handicap-able actor as well. They may be used, studied, performed in Universities, High Schools, Junior Schools, Senior Centers, and Acting Schools, private or public. Title: Actually Funny, Actually Poignant Scenes for Adults and Seniors

Author: Miller, Michele Makrouhi Publisher: Dizzy Emu Publishing 2016

Description:

original scenes - Alberta playwright - adults - seniors

Contains scenes written specifically for adults and seniors.

The monologues and scenes in the Breathtakingly Original Series were written specifically for the age ranges and genders specified. That said, many have been adapted for both genders, and adapted for the handicap-able actor as well. They may be used, studied, performed in Universities, High Schools, Junior Schools, Senior Centers, and Acting Schools, private or public.

Title: Aesop's Fable Fair A museque Author: Doolittle, Joyce Watts, John Publisher: Miscellaneous 965

Description:

roy children - musical - fairy tale - Alberta playwright large cast flexible casting (children) one act

Tells the stories of the 'Tortoise and the Hare', 'The Milkmaid and Her Pail', 'The Frog and the Ox', and 'The Old Man, the Son and the Donkey'.

Title: Aforesaid Bates

Author: Tarver, Ben Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters five male; one female two acts

The views and philosophies of a pioneer rancher are aired when he takes his stand, refusing to leave his spread on a missile range in New Mexico. Title: Aforesaid Bates

Author: Tarver, Ben Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters five male; one female two acts

1 interior set.

The views and philosophies of a pioneer rancher are aired when he takes his stand, refusing to leave his spread on a missile range in New Mexico.

Title: Alice Through the Past Lives

Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: William Rosewood Publishing 1988

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

"Alice undergoes hypnotic regression and travels back to uncover her former selves."

Title: Alice: The Tea Party

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980

Description:

roy comedy - fantasy - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts

1 exterior set.

A journey into the style and whimsy of the mad and wonderful world of Lewis Carroll; a re-creation rather than a re-telling. Title: Alien Love Connection

Author: Cameron, Ken Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1997

Description:

roy Canadian - Alberta playwright - comedy four characters two male; two female one act

running time: 50 min.

Harley is a former child star; her mother has spent Harley's savings to become a new age guru. Meanwhile her reluctant partner, the owner of a new age bookstore isn't sure what he has gotten himself into; and to top it all off Harley is slowly falling for a live time alien abductee.

Title: All Expenses Paid

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2000

Description:

roy romantic comedy - Alberta playwright twelve characters six male; six female (doubling) one act

"Lynn Wynicki just wants to be left alone, but when she wins a trip to Florida, she ends up travelling with a guy from the office she barely knows. An almost romantic comedy about destinations, desire and discovery, with just a little Disney on the side."

Title: All That's Left

Author: Salmon, Liam Publisher: Miscellaneous 2014

Description:

roy drama - Edmonton - family relations - LGBTQ+ - Alberta playwright - full script online three characters two male; one female one act

setting: Edmonton, present day, living room; running time: 50 min.

Three siblings, Kevin, Adam, and Viviane, try to come to terms with the potential loss of their parents and what that means for their fractured sense of family. In this uncertainty, is there anything that can be salvaged or have their bonds forged by blood run dry? "All That's Left" is a three-hander between three siblings (two men in their mid twenties and a woman in her late teens Title: Almost Perfect Thing, An

Author: Moeller, Nicole Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014

Description:

roy drama - thriller - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts

Greg is a once-respected journalist searching for a high-profile story that will help revive his career. Chloe is the missing girl he wrote about six years earlier who has just returned home to a world she no longer recognizes. Instead of leading police to her captor, Chloe turns to Greg to share her story. But Chloe won't provide names or locations, and instead dictates exactly how the story should be told. Who is her kidnapper? Why is she protecting him? When Greg begins to question whether truth and fiction have collided, he takes matters into his own hands, even if that

Title: Amazing Gracie

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1989

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - relationships - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts

running time: 90 min.

A widow and a widower find themselves "shacked up." Adam and Eve arrive to help, except that, this time, Eve is working with the masculine to make him more compliant and Adam is working with the feminine to make her more assertive.

Title: Angel of Death

Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

1 interior set.

The year is 1916 and the war is dragging on. When Alice McCauley returns home she has more on her mind than mourning her dead cousin. She has to come to terms with the tyrannical father who drove her from home, and who drove her young cousin to his death. She must also deal with the housekeeper who raised her, a woman who talks to spirits and speaks of worlds other than our Title: Angel of Death

Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

1 interior set.

The year is 1916 and the war is dragging on. When Alice McCauley returns home she has more on her mind than mourning her dead cousin. She has to come to terms with the tyrannical father who drove her from home, and who drove her young cousin to his death. She must also deal with the housekeeper who raised her, a woman who talks to spirits and speaks of worlds other than our

Title: Angel's Trumpet in - Sharon Pollock: Three Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy biographical - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

'In (this play) the turbulent relationship between Scoot and Zelda Fitzgerald is encapsulated in a meeting with Zelda's psychiatrist. Scott, on the verge of a mental breakdown himself, demands a diagnosis of Zelda's literary ambitions as evidence of her escalating mental deterioration. While the psychiatrist attempts to mediate, the couple squares off against each other while using as their weapons the events of their past, present and eventually their projected future. The struggle between these two passionate and talented individuals is underscored by the tapping of a

Title: Angel's Trumpet in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy biographical - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

'In (this play) the turbulent relationship between Scoot and Zelda Fitzgerald is encapsulated in a meeting with Zelda's psychiatrist. Scott, on the verge of a mental breakdown himself, demands a diagnosis of Zelda's literary ambitions as evidence of her escalating mental deterioration. While the psychiatrist attempts to mediate, the couple squares off against each other while using as their weapons the events of their past, present and eventually their projected future. The struggle between these two passionate and talented individuals is underscored by the tapping of a Title: Another Two-Hander or Two

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1995

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - acting - theatre - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts

"A comedy with a theatrical bent. Kelly deMare is a stage manager with a problem; namely the director. Is Kevin Russ inspired, intriguing or insane? Or is he just an actor/director? About directors, actors, stage managers and designers and what happens when the play becomes personal."

Title: Appetite

Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2000

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - human nature - fantasy - relationships - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

"Sam and Alice accept an invitation to dinner...but who, exactly , are their hosts? Victor and Tanya seem welcoming enough, but as the evening progresses events start to take an hilariously sinister turn...

Title: Apple

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - relationships - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts

"Andy is in trouble. Downsized from his job, his marriage in crises, he meets a mysterious young woman who he looks to for salvation. But when his wife becomes seriously ill, Andy must make a choice: care for an estranged wife, or run away with a woman he knows little about. A haunting tale of sex, secrets and second chances." Title: Apple in - Vern Thiessen: Two plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007

Description:

roy drama - relationships - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts

"Andy is in trouble. Downsized from his job, his marriage in crises, he meets a mysterious young woman who he looks to for salvation. But when his wife becomes seriously ill, Andy must make a choice: care for an estranged wife, or run away with a woman he knows little about. A haunting tale of sex, secrets and second chances."

Title: Apple

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - relationships - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts

"Andy is in trouble. Downsized from his job, his marriage in crises, he meets a mysterious young woman who he looks to for salvation. But when his wife becomes seriously ill, Andy must make a choice: care for an estranged wife, or run away with a woman he knows little about. A haunting tale of sex, secrets and second chances."

Title: Are We There Yet? in - Theatre, Teens, Sex Ed / REF Author: Heather, Jane Publisher: University of Alberta Press 2015

Description:

roy young adult - sexual behaviour - sex education - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

"Everybody talks about driving: how to drive, when to drive, what driving is like, drinking and driving, accidents, good drivers, stupid drivers…but sex? Well that’s a different story. "Are We There Yet?" is a funny participatory play by Jane Heather and sexuality health education workshop for 14-16 year olds. Drawing a parallel between mastering driving skills and negotiating relationship dilemmas, this award-winning play humorously opens a dialogue on sex. As teens watch and advise characters on stage, they feel as safe and free to talk about sexuality and Title: Armagideon

Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2010

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

Two eccentric 70-year-old women shelter themselves and their 9-year-old ward from the tortuous world outside and try to hide him from his mandatory war mongering duties. Nephew soldier Nathan arrives, on the run and spoiling for a fight, and unwillingly uncovers terrible truths. A vivid yet almost haphazard awareness of death and destruction and the confounding of all reason makes ARMAGIDEON a cautionary tale, with the flavour of a Lorca.

Title: Armagideon

Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2010

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

Two eccentric 70-year-old women shelter themselves and their 9-year-old ward from the tortuous world outside and try to hide him from his mandatory war mongering duties. Nephew soldier Nathan arrives, on the run and spoiling for a fight, and unwillingly uncovers terrible truths. A vivid yet almost haphazard awareness of death and destruction and the confounding of all reason makes ARMAGIDEON a cautionary tale, with the flavour of a Lorca.

Title: At the Zenith of the Empire

Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press 2007

Description:

roy theatre - biography - Sarah Bernhardt - Edmonton - Alberta playwright eight characters three male; five female two acts

In 1913, legendary tragedienne Sarah Bernhardt traveled to Edmonton, Alberta, to perform the last act of Alexandre Dumas' "The Lady of the Camellias" before two packed houses at the Empire Theatre. Inspired by "Fallen Empires" - John Orrell's celebrated history of Edmonton's Early theatre scene - this play creates a swirling speculative scenario about the impact of this very special day on the lives of Edmonton's earliest theatre goers and theatre practitioners. The Divine Sarah herself narrates this sumptuous romp of reminiscence, as the characters visit such local Title: At the Zenith of the Empire

Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press 2007

Description:

roy theatre - biography - Sarah Bernhardt - Edmonton - Alberta playwright eight characters three male; five female two acts

In 1913, legendary tragedienne Sarah Bernhardt traveled to Edmonton, Alberta, to perform the last act of Alexandre Dumas' "The Lady of the Camellias" before two packed houses at the Empire Theatre. Inspired by "Fallen Empires" - John Orrell's celebrated history of Edmonton's Early theatre scene - this play creates a swirling speculative scenario about the impact of this very special day on the lives of Edmonton's earliest theatre goers and theatre practitioners. The Divine Sarah herself narrates this sumptuous romp of reminiscence, as the characters visit such local

Title: Back to Berlin in - The Courier and Other Plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - war - family relations - Alberta playwright one character all male cast; one male one act

Back to Berlin brings us a man who accompanies his aging father on a visit to the city of his youth, and confronts his own fears of his father's involvement with the Nazis during World War II.

Nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award for Best Original Script.

Title: Back to the Kitchen, Woman in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy Comedy - women - historical - Alberta playwright eleven characters two male; nine female one act

'Comedy about changing roles of women in 1941 Canada.' Title: Bad and the Sick, The in - The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1986

Description:

roy comedy - black comedy - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act

Brief psychotic comedy of forbidden love in the gutters and drawing rooms of the Austrian capital.

Title: Bash'd A gay rap opera Author: Craddock, Chris Cuckow, Nathan Publisher: Talonbooks 2011

Description:

roy comedy - music - Alberta playwright - LGBTQ+ - men all male cast; many characters two male eleven parts

When Jack becomes the victim of a gay-bashing, Dillon sets out on an indiscriminate rampage of revenge. Realizing too late that two wrongs don't make a right, these star-crossed lovers, wrapped in each others arms, die in a hail of bullets. Condemned to wander the earth and tell their cautionary tale forever, their angelic personae TBAG and FEMINEM have enthralled wildly enthusiastic audiences all over North America with the rap opera rhymes of this tragic tale ever since.

Title: Bastard (Once Removed), A

Author: MacKillop, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

"An Albertan yields his economic power to his Nova Scotia relatives after they lead him via the graveyard to doubt his own legitimacy." Title: Beans and Rice

Author: Edwards, Linda Wood Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - young adult - full script online - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act

suggested for Junior High School; running time: 40 min.; setting: a school gymnasium.

A play about imagination, friendship, and understanding (and lice). A group of kids enter from the stage right wing through a gym door and arrange themselves. They queue up and often look to the stage left wing. Their short line-up will snake back and forth, up stage and down. They eventually work their way to the stage left wing, where something is happening but they don't

Title: Beast in the Bag and Wild West Circus, The

Author: Foord, Isabelle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

Description:

roy - children - fairy tale - Isabelle Foord - Alberta playwright

includes: The Beast in the Bag Wild West Circus

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Beast in the Bag, The in - The Beast in the Bag and Wild West Circus / CHC Author: Foord, Isabelle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

Description:

roy children - fairy tale - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

An adventure in an enchanted forest. Title: Beatty in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary - Alberta playwright three characters; one voice on tape one male; two female one act

A telemarketer and her invalid mother try to hit the jackpot.

Title: Beauty and the Beast

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982

Description:

roy children - fairy tale - Alberta playwright six characters; three male; three female two acts

unit set.

'The Beast, who is a prince under a spell, can only be freed when he is loved by Beauty.'

Title: Becoming Sharp

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright all female cast; three characters three female two acts

running time: 120 min.

Recruited as the ghostwriter to the author of the world's most famous mystery series, Judy Parker thinks she's won the chance of a lifetime. But secrets and mysteries surround her. And becoming the writer she dreams of might cost her everything she is. A drama of writing and rewriting who you are. Title: Bend in the Road A one act stage play Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - relationships - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

1 interior set.

To widen a road, the City is determined to expropriate a duplex, the two halves of which have occupants who dislike each other as much as they dislike the City.

Winner! Alberta Culture Award for one-act plays, 1983.

Title: Between Yourself and Me

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - romance - Alberta playwright seven characters two male; two female (doubling) two acts

sequel to "The Red King's Dream" and prequel to "The Raven and the Writing Desk".

Determined to help her socially awkward best friend Steven find love, Amy sets him up on one disastrous date after another. But by the time Amy discovers she is actually in love with Steven, it may be too late.

Title: Blackpool and Parrish

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

"A fast-paced comedy about Good, Evil, Destiny, Free Will, Family, and the End of the World. Harry Blackpool is the representative of all that is Evil on the planet Earth. Rachel Parrish represents the Good. After two thousand years of rivalry they are ready to pass their roles to their children. With the Apocalypse due tomorrow at tea time, is there any way to save the world? And doesn't humanity get any say in the matter?" Title: Bless You, Billy Wilder A play Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003

Description:

roy Canadian - Alberta playwright - friendship - comedy two characters one male; one female one act (seven scenes)

running time: 75 min.

When a failed screenwriter working to restore an 8 1/2 hour silent movie meets a disconnected graphic artist who has never seen a movie in her life, they begin a friendship that helps her grow in confidence and ability. But when he slips into fear and dementia, she is the only one who can save him. A moving tale of friendship, affection and filmic fantasy.

Title: Blizzard Leaves No Footprints and Other Plays, A

Author: Watts, Irene N. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy - children - Canadian - collection - Irene N. Watts - Alberta playwright

includes: A Blizzard Leaves No Footprints Listen to the Drum Patches The Rainstone

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Blizzard Leaves No Footprints and Other Plays, A

Author: Watts, Irene N. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy - children - Canadian - collection - Irene N. Watts - Alberta playwright

includes: A Blizzard Leaves No Footprints Listen to the Drum Patches The Rainstone

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Blizzard Leaves No Footprints and Other Plays, A

Author: Watts, Irene N. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy - children - Canadian - collection - Irene N. Watts - Alberta playwright

includes: A Blizzard Leaves No Footprints Listen to the Drum Patches The Rainstone

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Blizzard Leaves No Footprints, A in - A Blizzard Leaves No Footprints and Other Plays / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy children - Canadian - Native peoples - fantasy - audience participation - Alberta playwright nine characters three female; one boy; one girl; four male or female one act

intended audience ages 4 to 10.

Two Inuit children rescue their mother who has been captured by the Blizzard spirit as a result of their negligence.

Title: Blood Relations in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 1981

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters four male; four female two acts

"Lizzie Borden is driven to desperation by family pressure and the ambiguous complexities unfold as Lizzie's actress friend helps act out the crucial scenes with Lizzie's directions." Title: Blood Relations in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Penguin Books 1984

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters four male; four female two acts

"Lizzie Borden is driven to desperation by family pressure and the ambiguous complexities unfold as Lizzie's actress friend helps act out the crucial scenes with Lizzie's directions."

Title: Blood Relations in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 29, Winter 1981 / PER Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Miscellaneous 1981

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters four male; four female two acts

"Lizzie Borden is driven to desperation by family pressure and the ambiguous complexities unfold as Lizzie's actress friend helps act out the crucial scenes with Lizzie's directions."

Title: Blood Relations in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works: Volume One / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters four male; four female two acts

"Lizzie Borden is driven to desperation by family pressure and the ambiguous complexities unfold as Lizzie's actress friend helps act out the crucial scenes with Lizzie's directions." Title: Blood Relations in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (5th ed.) / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 2012

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters four male; four female two acts

"Lizzie Borden is driven to desperation by family pressure and the ambiguous complexities unfold as Lizzie's actress friend helps act out the crucial scenes with Lizzie's directions."

Title: Blood Relations in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters four male; four female two acts

"Lizzie Borden is driven to desperation by family pressure and the ambiguous complexities unfold as Lizzie's actress friend helps act out the crucial scenes with Lizzie's directions."

Title: Blood Relations and Other Plays

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 1981

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Sharon Pollock - Alberta playwright

includes: Blood Relations One Tiger to a Hill Generations

see separate entries for further description of each play Title: Blood Relations and Other Plays

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 1981

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Sharon Pollock - Alberta playwright

includes: Blood Relations One Tiger to a Hill Generations

see separate entries for further description of each play

Title: Blood Relations and Other Plays

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 1981

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Sharon Pollock - Alberta playwright

includes: Blood Relations One Tiger to a Hill Generations

see separate entries for further description of each play

Title: Blood Relations and Other Plays

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Sharon Pollock - Alberta playwright

includes: Blood Relations One Tiger to a Hill Generations Whiskey Six Cadenza

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Blood Relations and Other Plays

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 1981

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Sharon Pollock - Alberta playwright

includes: Blood Relations One Tiger to a Hill Generations

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Blood: A scientific romance

Author: Braem, Meg Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

setting: a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, 1962.

Twin sisters, Poubelle and Angelique, are bonded in both biology and shared tragedy after a car accident leaves them orphaned along a prairie highway in a pool of blood. But the young twins are brought home with Dr. Glass after their remarkable recovery, and quickly find themselves the subject of endless experiments. In a quest to study Poubelle and Angelique's

Title: Blowfish

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - drama - monologue - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male two acts

"What do food, funerals, the Edmonton tornado, and Mila Mulroney have in common? Join the caterer Lumiere as he serves you up a whole new eating experience." Title: Blowfish in - Vern Thiessen: Two plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - drama - monologue - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male two acts

running time: 80 min.

"What do food, funerals, the Edmonton tornado, and Mila Mulroney have in common? Join the caterer Lumiere as he serves you up a whole new eating experience."

Title: Blowfish in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - drama - monologue - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male two acts

"What do food, funerals, the Edmonton tornado, and Mila Mulroney have in common? Join the caterer Lumiere as he serves you up a whole new eating experience."

Title: Blowfish

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - drama - solo performance - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male two acts

"What do food, funerals, the Edmonton tornado, and Mila Mulroney have in common? Join the caterer Lumiere as he serves you up a whole new eating experience." Title: Blue Light, The in - Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays / CCO Author: Ouchi, Mieko Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - film industry - facism - biography - Alberta playwright twenty-two characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts

"Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most remarkable and controversial women artists of the 20th century. Riefenstahl caught the eye of Adolf Hitler with her film The Blue Light. Her choice to direct Triumph of the Will got her blacklisted as a filmmaker until her death in 2003 at 101. Riefenstahl, 100 years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood Studio Executive to make a desperate pitch for her first feature film in fifty years. A thought provoking contemplation on art, politics and the seduction of fascism and an examination of a woman who danced one perfect

Title: Blunderkin and the Reality Machines

Author: Jones, Sandra Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980

Description:

roy children - fantasy - comedy - Alberta playwright nine characters; three male; one female; two boys; three girls two acts

'Two teenagers with "reality machines" invade cave inhabited by bats.'

Title: Blunt Playwright, The

Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

Alberta Playwright

Guides introductory students of playwriting through the intricacies of playwriting in a direct, informative, and entertaining fashion. It examines dramatic structure, discusses the creative process, explores the nature of character in dramatic work, provides a number of writing exercises that are useful for generating text, and cites local and international playwrights throughout. Title: Bone House, The

Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female one act

running time: 75 min.

A serial killer lecture goes horribly wrong when a real serial killer shows up to challenge the lecturer.

Title: Book of Tobit, The As published in Theatrum Magazine (Feb/Mar 1995) Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1995

Description:

roy drama - loosely based on biblical stories - Alberta playwright ten characters three male; six female (doubling) two acts

Only contains 'Act One'. Description not available.

Title: Borrow Me in - Four by Four by Four / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - thriller - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

More of a thriller than a comedy, "Borrow Me" wanders through supernatural territory and there is an ominous note present even before murder and betrayal rear their ugly heads. Even so, it's billed as a comedy and there certainly are elements of that as well. Movie producer, Russel Bennet, and his embittered wife, Sharon, have Russel's naive young mistress, Jenny, to dinner. Filling out the party is Gordon, a university friend of the Bennets who is also Sharon's ex-boyfriend. Yes, the possibilities are indeed endless. Title: Box Beyond, The

Author: Botting, Gary Publisher: Harden House 1972

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright nine characters flexible casting one act

bare stage w/props.

This play explores in allegorical form, the system of "boxes" that either exist or that humans create, and human's attempts to escape them.

Adult One Act Playwriting competition 3rd prize, 1972.

Title: Boy Who Has A Horse

Author: LeMay, Bonnie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974

Description:

roy children - drama - Native peoples - Alberta playwright - Alberta five characters four male; one female one act; nine scenes

Set in the years when Sitting Bull's people took refuge in Southern Alberta, a Sioux boy makes a difficult decision that will determine his future.

Title: BoyGroove

Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011

Description:

roy comedy - music - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male two acts

Jersey Boy meets Altar Boyz, with this look back at the life and times of the world's biggest Boy Band. Dripping with pop culture references, full of infectious melodies, this toe tapping pop culture manifesto explores what happens when young Lance Treble is found in a gay sex scandal, and homophobic rapper Hypetastic makes a meal of it. Title: Breeches From Bond Street

Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: Samuel French 1952

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female one act

1 exterior set.

To the Canadian frontier of 1884 comes a young English Remittance Man who has "left his country for his country's good". And to the same settlement comes Eliza, a respectable but sight-unseen mail-order bride for the town gambler. The gambler takes a distant look, and sends her the money (by proxy) to go back home. The Remittance Man is mistaken for the groom, but not for long. He

Title: Breeches From Bond Street

Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: Samuel French 1952

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female one act

To the Canadian frontier of 1884 comes a young English Remittance Man who has "left his country for his country's good". And to the same settlement comes Eliza, a respectable but sight-unseen mail-order bride for the town gambler. The gambler takes a distant look, and sends her the money (by proxy) to go back home. The Remittance Man is mistaken for the groom, but not for long. He soon rights things with his fists, rescues the damsel in distress, and finds a new reason for living with decency and courage.

Title: Breeches From Bond Street in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female one act

1 exterior set.

'Comedy set in late 19th century Canadian border town. Gambler's mail-order bride arrives.' Title: Bride of the Gorilla

Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Canadian Playwrights 1974

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

" A divorced couple and the ex-wife's best friend spend an evening together re-opening and re-patching old wounds."

Title: Butler Did It, A

Author: Russell-King, Caroline Brown, Patrick R. Publisher: William Rosewood Publishing 1989

Description:

roy Canadian - murder - mystery - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female one act

No description available.

Title: Cant and Canto A monodrama Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - monologue - biography - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male four acts

masks required.

A monodrama tracing the dramatic events in the controversial life of Ezra Pound [a poet]. Title: Cariboo Magi

Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2002

Description:

roy comedy - theatre - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

running time: 110 minutes

'A drunken Anglican minister, an avarice saloon owner, a pregnant dancing girl and a man who claims to be the last of the Mohicans form a bedraggled troupe of desperate players. They head north, from San Diego, through the wilds of the Cariboo gold rush to perform a Christmas Pageant for the Theatre Royal in Barkerville, B.C., with hilarious results.'

Title: Cariboo Magi

Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2002

Description:

roy comedy - theatre - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

running time: 110 minutes

'A drunken Anglican minister, an avarice saloon owner, a pregnant dancing girl and a man who claims to be the last of the Mohicans form a bedraggled troupe of desperate players. They head north, from San Diego, through the wilds of the Cariboo gold rush to perform a Christmas Pageant for the Theatre Royal in Barkerville, B.C., with hilarious results.'

Title: Changing Bodies in - Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp and Other Plays / CCO Author: Brooker, Blake Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - monologues - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male one act

A surreal and humorous performance that examines personal change. Title: Chekhov's Trout

Author: MacKillop, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

Description:

roy Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act

2 interior sets.

Description not available.

Title: Chickens

Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000

Description:

nonroy musical - comedy - Alberta playwright six characters; narrators; extras three male: three female one act

"Pat and Liza run a farm in Alberta and are facing financial troubles. Things aren't helped by Pat's decision to sell the Angus cows and buy prize chickens. A musical comedy with chickens and humans discussing issues pertinent to rural society; issues ranging from the constant pressure of multinational agricultural conglomerates to the stress that comes from a livelihood in trouble."

Title: Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again; or, The Taming of the Sioux

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975

Description:

roy western - melodrama - comedy - high school - Alberta playwright twelve characters six male; six female two acts

1 interior set.

Set in the old West at the turn of the century, this is a melodrama about a Bard of the Plains whose plays bear a striking resemblance to those of you-know-who's. Title: Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again; or, The Taming of the Sioux in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: AU Press 2008

Description:

roy western - melodrama - comedy - high school - Alberta playwright twelve characters six male; six female two acts

1 interior set.

Set in the old West at the turn of the century, this is a melodrama about a Bard of the Plains whose plays bear a striking resemblance to those of you-know-who's.

Title: Chinook in - Chinook and Too Many Kings / CHC Author: Campbell, Paddy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

Description:

roy children - legend - Alberta playwright five characters; three male; two female one act

intended for audiences ages 5 to 8.

Two children set out to rescue their kidnapped father from the lodge of the Ice Woman. A legend of the end of winter and the return of spring.

Title: Chinook

Author: Campbell, Paddy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973

Description:

roy children - legend - Alberta playwright five characters; three male; two female one act

intended for audiences ages 5 to 8.

Two children set out to rescue their kidnapped father from the lodge of the Ice Woman. A legend of the end of winter and the return of spring. Title: Chinook

Author: Campbell, Paddy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973

Description:

roy children - legend - Alberta playwright five characters; three male; two female one act

intended for audiences ages 5 to 8.

Two children set out to rescue their kidnapped father from the lodge of the Ice Woman. A legend of the end of winter and the return of spring.

Title: Chinook in - Kids Plays: Six Canadian Plays for Children / CHC Author: Campbell, Paddy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973

Description:

roy children - legend - Alberta playwright five characters; three male; two female one act

intended for audiences ages 5 to 8.

Two children set out to rescue their kidnapped father from the lodge of the Ice Woman. A legend of the end of winter and the return of spring.

Title: Chinook and Too Many Kings

Author: Campbell, Paddy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

Description:

roy - children - comedy - Canadian - Paddy Campbell - Alberta playwright

includes: Chinook Too Many Kings

Please see separate entries for description of each play. Title: Chinook and Too Many Kings

Author: Campbell, Paddy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

Description:

roy - children - comedy - Canadian - Paddy Campbell - Alberta playwright

includes: Chinook Too Many Kings

Please see separate entries for description of each play.

Title: Chinook and Too Many Kings

Author: Campbell, Paddy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

Description:

roy - children - comedy - Canadian - Paddy Campbell - Alberta playwright

includes: Chinook Too Many Kings

Please see separate entries for description of each play.

Title: Chokeberry Whine

Author: MacKillop, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

"A Canadian nationalist leaves his American lover with his grandfather's ghost to attend his aunt's funeral in Florida, where he finds the roots of his anti-Americanism." Title: Chris Axelson, Blacksmith in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters four male; one boy one act

'Swedish blacksmith in Western Canada has ambition to send adopted son to school, but boy prefers working in garage.'

Title: Christmas Carol, A Every man has the power to do good Author: Dickens, Charles Hutchison, James Publisher: Miscellaneous 2015

Description:

roy Alberta playwright - comedy - Christmas large cast flexible casting two acts

Adapted by James Hutchison, running time: approx 120 minutes.

In this fresh, fun and lively adaptation of A Christmas Carol you’ll meet Mr. Bentley, learn about the letters Scrooge wrote to his sister Fan, and find out who Mr. Newbury is. You’ll still find all the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future along with Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, the Ghost of Jacob Marley, Old Fezziwig, Scrooge’s nephew Fred, and the love of Scrooge’s life, Belle. There are

Title: Circle, The

Author: Brown, Geoffrey Simon Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017

Description:

roy young adult - dark comedy - drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female one act

Amanda is a genius. Ily is a drug dealer. Kit is a runaway. Mutt is a mess. Will is a shit disturber. Daniel doesn’t know what he’s doing there. It’s a high school garage party. Everyone’s a bit too drunk and a bit too stoned and a bit uncomfortable in their own skin. It’s an explosive combination, but it’s better than being alone on a Friday night in suburbia. Title: Clockmaker, The

Author: Massicotte, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy comedy - mystery - romance - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female thirteen scenes

“WHO ARE YOU?” Monsieur Pierre (the immigration official) poses his usual question, but Heinrich’s unusual answer sets in motion a metaphysical rollercoaster. Why would a simple statement of name and profession bring so much attention to an unassuming clockmaker? Maybe because that’s two more things than anyone else in this place remembers? Soon, Heinrich is reminding his new friend Frieda of memories she’s forgotten and even summoning up a few of his own—of forbidden love, and crimes he may or may not have committed. Is it possible to be guilty

Title: Closer and Closer Apart A play in one act Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female eleven scenes

"Joe Ballantyne is a retired architect, widowed some time in the past, now in the early stages of Alzheimer Disease. Melody Ballantyne is his daughter, recently separated. Melody is stopping in on Joe en route to Chicago. Hints that neither was exactly as close or caring as they could have been in the past, Melody is faced with the very real fact that there is less and less of her father to connect with."

Title: Closer and Closer Apart A play in two acts Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Miscellaneous 2007

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts

"Born out of a one-act two-hander Stickland wrote in 1999, the play takes place entirely in Joe’s well-furnished high-rise condo. Joe's daughter, Melody, returns home from Vancouver on a stop-over to a new job in Arizona, coming to grips with her own divorce as she confronts not only her deteriorated father, but also her never-stop real estate agent brother Michael, a pragmatist whose day-to-day dealings with their dad have taken their toll, but whose cellphone is always ringing." Title: Coal Valley: the Making of a Miner in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy historical drama - Canadian - mining - Drumheller - Alberta playwright many characters four male; three female (doubling) two acts

This epic work outlines the history of coal mining in the Drumheller valley, and the creation and dissolution of a community through fifty years of a miner's life, from a young boy working with the ponies until 1914 until he closes the last mine as a pit boss.

Title: Cocktails at Pam's

Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright eleven characters five male; six female one act

'Pam Cochrane was always the perfect hostess. Always . . . until there were more floral arrangements than suitable vases. . . until the divorcee didn't want her canape. . . until the chit-chat stopped and the charades began. Madness and despair consort merrily with mirth in Teatro La Quindicina's ultimate party piece, a three time hit at the Edmonton Fringe Festival.'

Title: Cocktails at Pam's in - Cocktails at Pam's & Evelyn Strange / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright eleven characters five male; six female one act

'Pam Cochrane was always the perfect hostess. Always . . . until there were more floral arrangements than suitable vases. . . until the divorcee didn't want her canape. . . until the chit-chat stopped and the charades began. Madness and despair consort merrily with mirth in Teatro La Quindicina's ultimate party piece, a three time hit at the Edmonton Fringe Festival.' Title: Cocktails at Pam's and Evelyn Strange

Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - comedy - mystery - Alberta playwright

collection contains: Cocktails at Pam's Evelyn Strange

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Collected Plays of Gwen Ringwood

Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy - Canadian drama - Alberta playwright

Collection includes: One Man's House Chris Axelson, Blacksmith Still Stands the House Pasque Flower Dark Harvest Red Flag at Evening The Days May Be Long Saturday Night The Courting of Marie Jenvrin

Title: Compensation Will Be Paid in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright nine characters two male; seven female one act

'Scientific testing threatens livelihood of prairie farm family.' Title: Compulsory Option

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Miscellaneous 1970

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female three acts

Alberta Playwriting Competition, 1970, 2nd Prize.

No abstract available.

Title: Conni Massing: Two Plays

Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Conni Massing - Alberta playwright

contains: Homesick The Myth of Summer

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Connie in Egypt

Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

'Connie is a government librarian who takes an impulse vacation in Egypt in order to get rid of unused holiday time. Her adventures include a brush with terrorism, a chat with the Sphinx, a visit with Characters from "Death in Venice", and a romantic interlude in a subterranean tunnel.' Title: Constance in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - family relations - murder - Alberta playwright⌦twelve characters; voices five male; five female; two boys one act

An older woman discusses a murder from the past with a new accuser.

Title: Contraption

Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female one act

When Paul Merriman loses his longtime job at Canadian Tire reverberations are felt around the world. Okay, maybe not the world, it only seems like it. His whole family buckles under the pressure giving rise to old wounds, new anxieties and some crazy goings on. To restore some sanity into his life Paul decides to build something in his livingroom. What the hell is it?

Title: Conversations with my Neighbour's Pit Bull in - A Three Martini Lunch / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female one act

"The strange but somehow universally recognisable inhabitants include a pathologically analytical professor of philosophy, Robert Teller, trying to befriend the local canine while dealing with his precocious twelve-year-old daughter, Ellen, and his obnoxious neighbour, Tyler." Title: Cornelius Dragon in - Eight Plays for Young People / CHC Author: Truss, Jan Publisher: NeWest Press 1984

Description:

roy Canadian - youth - social issues - racism - drama - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

An immigrant teenager to rural Canada faces the despair of the dispossessed, racism and the loneliness of running away. Eventually he finds his strength.

Title: Counsellor Extraordinary in - A Collection of Canadian Plays, Volume 1 / CCO Author: Boston, Stewart Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1972

Description:

roy Canadian - historical - drama - Alberta playwright sixteen characters; extras fifteen male; one female two acts

5 interiors; music; singing.

"Historical drama about Francis Bacon's role in downfall and treason trial of patron. Robert Deveruex, Earl of Essex, whose defiant pride lost him Queen Elizabeth I of England's favour."

Title: Courier and Other Plays, The

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy - collection - Vern Thiessen - Canadian - Alberta playwright

includes: The Courier Valentine Back to Berlin The Resurrection of John Frum

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Courier, The

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1987

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - war - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male one act

"Spring 1945, occupied Czechoslovakia. David Dyck, a young courier in Hitler's army, must decide whether to open a restricted letter and face truth or remain ignorant and risk death."

Title: Courier, The in - The Courier and Other Plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - war - World War II - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male one act

"Spring 1945, occupied Czechoslovakia. David Dyck, a young courier in Hitler's army, must decide whether to open a restricted letter and face truth or remain ignorant and risk death."

Title: Courting of Marie Jenvrin, The

Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Samuel French 1951

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female one act

1 interior set.

Marie promises to marry any man who will transport a cow to her in Yellowknife. She is saved from marrying Mr. Dinsmore, the businessman, and taught a lesson by Michael Lorrigan. Marie and Michael discover that they love each other. Title: Courting of Marie Jenvrin, The

Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Samuel French 1951

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female one act

1 interior set.

Marie promises to marry any man who will transport a cow to her in Yellowknife. She is saved from marrying Mr. Dinsmore, the businessman, and taught a lesson by Michael Lorrigan. Marie and Michael discover that they love each other.

Title: Courting of Marie Jenvrin, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - romance - Alberta playwright - North West Territores seven characters five male; two female one act

1 set.

'In remote Northwest Territories of Canada, waitress agrees to marry first man who can get a cow into the snowbound settlement.'

Title: Courtship A comedy in one act Author: Penman, Steve Publisher: Steve Penman 2006

Description:

roy comedy - aging - relationships - Alberta playwright all male cast; two male two characters one act

1 exterior set

Two elderly gentleman, one a widower and the other married, meet regularly to observe and offer "solutions" to the world's problems. At the same time, they provide real insight about loneliness, aging and relationships. Title: Cowboy Boots and a Corsage in - Voices of the Land / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: AU Press 2012

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female eleven scenes

The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In "Cowboy Boots and a Corsage" a woman refuses to sell her mother's land for development.

Title: Crimson Cap Ladies Bare it All, The

Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous 2017

Description:

roy comedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta playwright ten characters; extras three male; seven female three acts

Running time: 90 mins; 1 set.

The Crimson Cap Ladies end up accidentally booked into a nudist resort on a secluded island off the coast of British Columbia with no way back to the mainland for a week. Complications abound as they try to keep a virginal nice raised by her Mom in the wilds of northern Alberta away from seeing anything scandalous.

Title: Crimson Cap Ladies Catch a Con, The

Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous 2015

Description:

roy comedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters one male; seven female three acts

Running time: 90 minutes; one set.

The second Crimson Cap Ladies episode finds their club infiltrated by a violent escaped con disguised as an older woman from the UK. Great physical comedy and hilarious dialogue provide the laughs. The play is ideal for amateur theatre groups who attract a large segment of seniors, especially, "Red Hat Ladies." Title: Crimson Cap Ladies Save the Day, The

Author: Mckerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous 2014

Description:

roy comedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta Playwright seven characters two male; seven female three acts

This is the first of the quadrilogy which features four older women in a small town social club, known as the Crimson Cap Ladies. On one of their monthly excursions, they get trapped in the seedy town bar fearing for their lives as people go missing, then return acting like zombies! Of course, an alien invasion is blamed.

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Title: Crimson Cap Ladies take on Vegas, The

Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous 2016

Description:

roy comedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta playwright fourteen characters two male; seven female (doubling) three acts

Running time; 90 minutes; 1 set.

The feisty Crimson Cap Ladies head to Vegas for the Crimson Cap International Convention and Bake Sale and get mixed up with a gang of jewel thieves after Millie gets kidnapped. Lots of laughs with twists and turns in the mystery to keep audiences guessing. This is a wonderful third addition to the Crimson Cap Ladies saga.

Title: Crushed

Author: Morrow, Heather Publisher: Miscellaneous 2015

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - abuse - women - full script online all female cast; two characters two female one act

setting: living room of Olivia's walk-up apartment.; running time: 30 min.

Olivia, or Liv, has always looked out for her beautiful but fragile younger sister Vanessa - Nessie to their family. Ness has been living with her boyfriend, who regularly abuses her. And every time, Ness runs to Liv, and then goes back. On this particular night, something is horribly different... Title: D'Arcy in - Popular Performance Plays of Canada, Volume 2 / CCO Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1981

Description:

roy Canadian - monologues - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male two acts

1 setting

"One man play about life of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish by birth, a poet, rebel and journalist who became known as Father of Confederation in Canada. Background music."

Title: D'Arcy A docu-drama Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1981

Description:

roy Canadian - monologues - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male two acts

1 setting; background music.

"One man play about life of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish by birth, a poet, rebel and journalist who became known as Father of Confederation in Canada."

Title: D'Arcy A docu-drama Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1981

Description:

roy Canadian - monologues - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male two acts

1 setting; background music.

"One man play about life of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish by birth, a poet, rebel and journalist who became known as Father of Confederation in Canada." Title: Dangers of VD (Valentine's Day), The

Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright - romance - relationships - Canadian six characters two male; four female three acts

Running time: 90 minutes.

Uproarious laughs mixed with social commentary against the background of Valentine's Day. Gramps and Gran yearn for the romance of yesteryear while their daughter-in-law, Paulette, and her husband deal with his lack of interest in sex. Meanwhile, Paulette's daughter is being coached to dress trampily to attract men by her Aunt Jean. A device for great comedy in The Dangers of VD

Title: Dark Harvest

Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1945

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female three acts

1 exterior set; 1930's costume.

"A trivial tragedy of the Prairies". For Gerth Hansen, wheat farmer, God is in the land and he struggles against it, alone.

Title: Dark Harvest

Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1945

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female three acts

1 exterior set; 1930's costume.

"A trivial tragedy of the Prairies". For Gerth Hansen, wheat farmer, God is in the land and he struggles against it, alone. Title: Dark Harvest in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragedy - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female three acts

2 sets.

'Canadian farmer is destroyed by the interest his wife has in helping his brother build rural hospital.'

Title: Dark Harvest in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 5, Winter 1975 / PER Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Miscellaneous 1975

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female three acts

1 exterior set; 1930's costume.

"A trivial tragedy of the Prairies". For Gerth Hansen, wheat farmer, God is in the land and he struggles against it, alone.

Title: Dawn Quixote A musical comedy for young audiences Author: Thiessen, Vern Doyle, Tom Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995

Description:

roy musical - children - comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

"Dawn lives in a world of comic-book characters and imaginary superheroes. With her friend Sammy in tow, Dawn ventures forth on a quest to find the real meaning of the word "hero"." Title: Day Billy Lived, The in - Naked at School / YCL Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy comedy - teenage suicide - Alberta playwright sixteen characters nine boys; seven girls (doubling possible) one act

"This collection tackles the weighty issues of suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, and sex and pregnancy in the lives of teens and their families with intelligent humour and candid reality."

Title: Days May Be Long, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright four characters one male; three female one act

1 set.

'Mother tries emotional blackmail on grown son and daughter when they attempt to lead their own lives.'

Title: Dear Johnny Deere Based on the music and lyrics of Fred Eaglesmith Author: Cameron, Ken Eaglesmith, Fred Publisher: NeWest Press 2015

Description:

roy Canadian - musical - Alberta playwright six characters five male; one female two acts

music and lyrics by Fred Eaglesmith.

It’s hard enough for Johnny and his wife Caroline to keep their farm afloat when the banks, the government, technology, and nature itself all seem in collusion against them. But when an old high school classmate—now a handsome land speculator—returns to town, Johnny and Caroline’s marriage is at stake as well. In the short time since its premiere at the Blyth Festival in 2012, Ken Title: Death in the Family in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters two male; four female two acts

Description not available.

Title: Death of Dracula, The

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1979

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eight characters six male; two female three acts

originally performed under the name "Mors Draculae"; running time: 90 min.

Lucy and Count Dracula are together again in a gloomy castle in Suffolk. Van Helsing believes he knows what's wrong with Lucy and so does the charming but mysterious count.

Title: Deep Has Many Voices, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters; extras five male; seven female one act

1 set; background music; singing; dancing.

"Experimental play. Young Greek boy and Canadian girl fight to find themselves, without simply accepting the mores and strictures of the community." Title: Democracy One whole day beside a pond Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male one act

July, 1863. The American Civil War rages as two old friends meet in the stillness beside a pond in the woods outside Washington, D.C. Because these men are Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, they discuss their doubts with a particular passion. Democracy is a challenging and eloquent examination of human nature and the nature of war.

Title: Democracy One whole day beside a pond Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male one act

July, 1863. The American Civil War rages as two old friends meet in the stillness beside a pond in the woods outside Washington, D.C. Because these men are Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, they discuss their doubts with a particular passion. Democracy is a challenging and eloquent examination of human nature and the nature of war.

Title: Dirt in - Three Really Nasty Plays / CCO Author: Chambers, Ron Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1997

Description:

roy drama - farce - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

"[This play] is an unorthodox, early and original variation of a murder mystery crossed with a cop show. Its five characters both attract and repel us as they taunt one another and teeter on the edge of farce." Title: Dismissal Leading To Lustfulness

Author: Whyte, Thomas Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female one act

various sets required.

On the day of his dismissal from his latest job, a middle-aged dreamer is caught in the fantasies of his rooming-house neighbors. (The play) is a frightening yet amusing excursion into the world of the lonely and the lost.

Title: Do It Right in - Naked at School / YCL Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy young adult - pregnancy - Alberta playwright four characters two boys; two girls one act

"This collection tackles the weighty issues of suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, and sex and pregnancy in the lives of teens and their families with intelligent humour and candid reality."

Title: Doc in - Modern Canadian Plays, Volume II (3rd ed) / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1994

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts

Catherine returns home to visit her aging father, a doctor revered and honoured by his community. She confronts, through a series of flashbacks, her thwarted need for his love and her late mother's decline into alcoholism, finally realizing that it is time for a reconciliation with her father.

Winner, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 1986. Title: Doc

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts

Catherine returns home to visit her aging father, a doctor revered and honoured by his community. She confronts, through a series of flashbacks, her thwarted need for his love and her late mother's decline into alcoholism, finally realizing that it is time for a reconciliation with her father.

Winner of the Governor General's Literacy Award for Drama.

Title: Doc

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Broadview Drama 1984

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts

Catherine returns home to visit her aging father, a doctor revered and honoured by his community. She confronts, through a series of flashbacks, her thwarted need for his love and her late mother's decline into alcoholism, finally realizing that it is time for a reconciliation with her father.

Winner of the Governor General's Literacy Award for Drama.

Title: Doc

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts

Catherine returns home to visit her aging father, a doctor revered and honoured by his community. She confronts, through a series of flashbacks, her thwarted need for his love and her late mother's decline into alcoholism, finally realizing that it is time for a reconciliation with her father.

Winner of the Governor General's Literacy Award for Drama. Title: Doc in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts

Catherine returns home to visit her aging father, a doctor revered and honoured by his community. She confronts, through a series of flashbacks, her thwarted need for his love and her late mother's decline into alcoholism, finally realizing that it is time for a reconciliation with her father.

Winner, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 1986.

Title: Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Moliere's madcap masterpiece of medicine and mistaken manners Author: Molière, Jean-Baptiste Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian adaptation - Alberta playwright eleven characters six male; five female one act

David Belke's adaptation of Jean-Baptiste Molière's play by the same name.

Moliere's classic comedy of manners, mayhem and medical malfeasance is adapted for a contemporary Canadian audience while illuminating the creator's original intentions and wit.

Title: Down for the Weekend

Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright seven characters six male; one female two acts

open stage.

A young roughneck from Alberta's Tar Sands has big plans for his future - plans that implode violently on a weekend visit to Edmonton. Title: Down For the Weekend in - New Canadian Drama 3 / CCO Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Borealis Press 1984

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright - canadian - alberta seven characters six male; one female two acts

open stage.

A young roughneck from Alberta's Tar Sands has big plans for his future - plans that implode violently on a weekend visit to Edmonton.

Title: Dream Without Bottom

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001

Description:

roy romantic comedy - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts

'Forty years ago Rosalind Downey fell in love with an actor while performing "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Now he's back. Rosy colored memory collides with cold reality against a Shakespearean background in this touching comedy.'

Title: Dreamland and Girls in the Gang, The

Author: Storey, Raymond Roby, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - Raymond Storey - Alberta playwright

includes: The Dreamland Girls in the Gang

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Dreamland and Girls in the Gang, The

Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - Raymond Storey - Alberta playwright

includes: The Dreamland Girls in the Gang

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Dreamland Saturday Nights

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1998

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - romance - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

"When a die-hard movie fan accidentally meets a film student at the Dreamland Repertory Cinema, will it be true love, or merely an illusion? Desire and film fantasy collide with hilarious and heartbreaking results. With appearances by Bogart, Bette Davis, Astaire and others."

Title: Dreamland, The in - The Dreamland & Girls in the Gang / CCO Author: Storey, Raymond Roby, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989

Description:

roy Canadian - musical - Alberta playwright twenty-six characters; extras fifteen male; eleven female two acts

"The memories of the people who gathered at the formerly grand Dreamland ballroom weave through past and present, as Rose, the former owner prepares to sell off its shabby remains." Title: Dreary and Izzy

Author: Beagan, Tara Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright - Native peoples four characters one male; three female two acts

1975, Lethbridge, Alberta. When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre remains as the sole caregiver to her older sister, Isabelle. Adopted as an infant from the neighbouring Blood Indian Reserve, Isabelle is loving, joyous, and severely affected by fetal alcohol syndrome in a time before the disorder had a name. Just as Deirdre is poised to enter university and begin exploring her own future, she must choose how much of her life she will sacrifice for the love of Isabelle. Deirdre is barely staying afloat under the strain of this reality

Title: Drowning Girls / Comrades, The

Author: Graham, Beth Vlaskalic, Daniela Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

collection - Canadian - Alberta playwright

contains: The Drowning Girls - Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, Daniela Vlaskalic Comrades - Beth Graham, Daniela Vlaskalic

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Drowning Girls / Comrades, The

Author: Graham, Beth Vlaskalic, Daniela Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

collection - Canadian - Alberta playwright

contains: The Drowning Girls - Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, Daniela Vlaskalic Comrades - Beth Graham, Daniela Vlaskalic

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Drowning Girls, The in - The Drowning Girls / Comrades / CCO Author: Graham, Beth Vlaskalic, Daniela Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; many characters three female (doubling) one act

Bessie, Alice, and Margaret have two things in common: they are married to George Joseph Smith, and they are dead. Surfacing from the bathtubs they were drowned in, the three breathless brides gather evidence against their womanizing, murderous husband by reliving the shocking events leading up to their deaths. Reflecting on the misconceptions of love, married life, and the not-so-happily ever after, The Drowning Girls is both a breathtaking fantasia and a social critique, full of rich images, a myriad of characters, and lyrical language.

Title: Drum Song in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1984

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - tragedy - Alberta playwright twenty-nine characters seven male; twenty-two female (doubling possible) three parts

Trilogy contains: Lament for Harmonica (Maya) The Stranger The Furies

Title: Drumheller or Dangerous Times in - Metastasis and other plays / CCO Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: NeWest Press 2009

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - mystery - Alberta playwright - Alberta seven characters four male; three female (doubling possible) two acts

A present-day paleontologist finds a human skull in a dinosaur dig. His investigation uncovers a diary that takes us back to 1924 Drumheller to follow the misadventure of a strange coalminer, his bootlegging girlfriend, a pair of young runaways and a suitcase full of money. Title: Early Worm Club, The in - Voices of the Land / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: AU Press 2012

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright - Alberta three characters two male; one female two scenes

The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In "The Early Worm Club" Millie realizes a deep sense of belonging to the Alberta parkland and its birds while searching for her mate.

Title: Echo Box in - Three Quest Plays for Children / CHC Author: James, JoAnne Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy Canadian - children - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

"Set by the sea, where two friends have met for many enjoyable summer holidays. This particular summer is marked by reunion, betrayal and reconciliation."

Title: Edmonton Queen, The Not a Riverboat Story: Inside a Dynasty of Drag Author: Hagen, Darrin Publisher: Slipstream Books 1997

Description:

Reference - Canadian - Alberta playwright

"In intense immersion in the glamourous, fast-paced, radical world of drag, Darrin Hagen's brilliant play was the toast of the 1996 Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival. If you missed the play and you wept, now you can read the book and laugh! If you saw the play and you loved it, the book has more stories, more queens, more backstage gossip - and 108 great photos." Title: Einstein's Gift

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

roy drama - science - Canadian - biography - Alberta playwright twelve characters; extras; musicians five male; two female (doubling) two acts

Based on the life and work of Nobel laureate Dr. Fritz Haber, who risked everything for a country that never accepted him, but used his work to murder millions. A revolutionary chemist, Dr. Fritz Haber discovered too late that when his knowledge was put in the hands of the wrong people, millions would die; his efforts to serve humanity futile against political will, nationalism, and war. This updated edition of Vern Thiessen’s Governor General’s Literary Award-winning play about the collision of power and pride still resonates with verve and vigour.

Title: Einstein's Gift in - The West of All Possible Worlds / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004

Description:

roy drama - science - Canadian - biography - Alberta playwright twelve characters; extras; musicians five male; two female (doubling) two acts

Based on the life and work of Nobel laureate Dr. Fritz Haber, who risked everything for a country that never accepted him, but used his work to murder millions. A revolutionary chemist, Dr. Fritz Haber discovered too late that when his knowledge was put in the hands of the wrong people, millions would die; his efforts to serve humanity futile against political will, nationalism, and war. This updated edition of Vern Thiessen’s Governor General’s Literary Award-winning play about the collision of power and pride still resonates with verve and vigour.

Title: Elixir, The

Author: DeFelice, James Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973

Description:

roy drama - high school - Alberta playwright eight characters; extras six male; two female one act

1 interior set; 2 exterior sets;

An ironic fable set in Medieval Spain. A charlatan and his fool sell an elixir of life to the gullible townsfolk, but are confronted by a mysterious stranger as they are leaving the town... Title: Elixir, The

Author: DeFelice, James Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973

Description:

roy drama - high school - Alberta playwright eight characters; extras six boys; two girls one act

1 interior set; 2 exterior sets.

An ironic fable set in Medieval Spain. A charlatan and his fool sell an elixir of life to the gullible townsfolk, but are confronted by a mysterious stranger as they are leaving the town...

Title: End Dream in - Sharon Pollock: Three Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts

'Vancouver, 1914. The death of a young Scottish nanny employed by a member of the political and social elite of the era raised questions of murder and suicide. The racism of 20's Vancouver made inevitable the accusation of murder against Wong Foon Sing, a Chinese servant in the household.'

Title: End Dream in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

'Vancouver, 1914. The death of a young Scottish nanny employed by a member of the political and social elite of the era raised questions of murder and suicide. The racism of 20's Vancouver made inevitable the accusation of murder against Wong Foon Sing, a Chinese servant in the household.' Title: Enigma

Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Touchwood Press 2003

Description:

roy drama - death - Alberta playwright all female cast; four characters four female two acts

Set in the chronic care ward of a hospital, the play looks at life and death with unusual compassion and understanding.

Title: Enigma

Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Touchwood Press 2003

Description:

roy drama - death - Alberta playwright all female cast; four characters four female two acts

Set in the chronic care ward of a hospital, the play looks at life and death with unusual compassion and understanding.

Title: Escape from Golf Camp in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Shaw, Rebecca Wreggitt, Andrew Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

Two golf addicts connect at a golf camp. Title: Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk Scenes from life in the Mackenzie River Delta Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talonbooks 1973

Description:

roy satire - Canadian - social issues - Native peoples - Alberta playwright fifteen characters nine male; six female twelve scenes

A social satire about Inuit life in the Mackenzie River Delta and how it is affected by white settlers, priests, and government officials.

Title: Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy satire - Canadian - social issues - Native peoples - Alberta playwright fifteen characters nine male; six female twelve scenes

A social satire about Inuit life in the Mackenzie River Delta and how it is affected by white settlers, priests, and government officials.

Title: Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk

Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talonbooks 1973

Description:

roy satire - Canadian - social issues - Native peoples - Alberta playwright fifteen characters nine male; six female twelve scenes

A social satire about Inuit life in the Mackenzie River Delta and how it is affected by white settlers, priests, and government officials. Title: Espresso

Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2002

Description:

roy drama - family relations - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts

'Espresso is a shot of caffeine, Italian family, death and Catholic erotic mysticism. Rosa unfolds the story of her father's car accident and how it affects the lives of the three women who love him the most: his daughter, his mother and his wife. Meanwhile, Amante, the second uninvited narrator, bursts into the story when Rosa avoids the truth, skips over parts, or is unable to continue.'

Title: Evelyn Strange in - Cocktails at Pam's & Evelyn Strange - CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

'A beautiful amnesiac wanders into the world of publishing and high society in 1950's New York and, as she seeks her identity, unravels a tangled web of deceit, betrayal and murder. Hilarity and suspense go hand in hand as the perplexed and perplexing Evelyn leads three urban sophisticates on a mad dash from the Metropolitan Opera to Grand Central Station, and in and out of the offices, apartments and hotel rooms of mid-town Manhattan.'

Title: Excavations in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - relationships - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female two acts

One day while walking along her own property, and across a field onto her neighbour Finn's property, Christina Fudge came across a fossilized bone sticking out of the face of a cliff. While she was quite accustomed to finding archaeological artifacts in these fields, this was a first for her. She dutifully contacted the provincial museum in the capital and they in turn sent out a paleontologist to investigate. He determined that the protruding bone was in fact a rib, a part of a much larger skeleton of a T-Rex and that it would serve the interest of science to excavate it. Title: Exit, Pursued by Bard Variations in the key of Shakespeare Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - Shakespeare multiple characters two male; two female (doubling) two acts

A comedic cornucopia of Shakespeare inspired playlets, sketches and poems (with a wee touch of drama) make for a production rich in variety and entertainment value. The twenty scenes turn upside down Shakespearean mysteries, themes and characters. Among other things audiences discover the real reason for Prospero's island exile, the unexpected aftermath of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a backstage conflict mirroring the drama of Othello, the final fate of Banquo's ghost, the sobering tale of Romeo's Apothecary, the insurmountable problems in bringing a bear

Title: Exquisite Hour, The in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - relationships - Canadian - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female one act

A couple form a relationship on a porch in the summer of 1962.

Title: Fair Liberty's Call

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Coach House Press 1995

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female two acts

"1785. A Loyalist family that has fled from Boston to New Brunswick is joined by two other veterans, and a stranger whom they assume is a former Loyalist soldier. The stranger reveals himself to be a Rebel and a gunpoint demands justice for the death of his younger brother at the battle of Waxhaws. He gives them until dawn to choose one person for execution. As the Loyalists debate who among them is least worthy to live, each is forced to confront his own actions and conscience." Title: Fair Liberty's Call

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Coach House Press 1995

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female two acts

"1785. A Loyalist family that has fled from Boston to New Brunswick is joined by two other veterans, and a stranger whom they assume is a former Loyalist soldier. The stranger reveals himself to be a Rebel and a gunpoint demands justice for the death of his younger brother at the battle of Waxhaws. He gives them until dawn to choose one person for execution. As the Loyalists debate who among them is least worthy to live, each is forced to confront his own actions and conscience."

Title: Fair Liberty's Call in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical - Alberta playwright - New Brunswick eight characters five male; three female two acts

"1785. A Loyalist family that has fled from Boston to New Brunswick is joined by two other veterans, and a stranger whom they assume is a former Loyalist soldier. The stranger reveals himself to be a Rebel and a gunpoint demands justice for the death of his younger brother at the battle of Waxhaws. He gives them until dawn to choose one person for execution. As the Loyalists debate who among them is least worthy to live, each is forced to confront his own actions and conscience."

Title: Far as the Eye Can See

Author: Wiebe, Rudy Publisher: NeWest Press 1977

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seventeen characters thirteen male; four female three acts

various interior and exterior sets.

A contemporary (1977) look at Alberta inspired by the struggle of the Dodds-Round Hill farming community with Calgary Power over an enormous thermal power-plant development just outside of Edmonton. Title: Far as the Eye Can See

Author: Wiebe, Rudy Publisher: NeWest Press 1977

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seventeen characters thirteen male; four female three acts

various interior and exterior sets.

A contemporary (1977) look at Alberta inspired by the struggle of the Dodds-Round Hill farming community with Calgary Power over an enormous thermal power-plant development just outside of Edmonton.

Title: Far as the Eye Can See in - Showing West / CCO Author: Wiebe, Rudy Publisher: NeWest Press 1982

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright - Alberta seventeen characters thirteen male; four female three acts

various interior and exterior sets.

A contemporary (1977) look at Alberta inspired by the struggle of the Dodds-Round Hill farming community with Calgary Power over an enormous thermal power-plant development just outside of Edmonton.

Title: Faraway Nearby, The

Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1995

Description:

roy drama - biography - relationships - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female three parts

'In John Murrell's "The Faraway Nearby", Georgia O'Keefe resigns herself to an old age spent in the auburn and tawny light of her beloved Faraway mountains without the company of others until a stranger enters her life. Juan Hamilton, a young artist and handyman, befriends the elderly O'Keefe, becoming the eyes for the almost-blind artist, and the cushion between her and the outside world. Hamilton remained O'Keefe's companion for over a decade, and it is in the complexities of this friendship that John Murrell explores the uncompromising nature of the artist Title: Faraway Nearby, The

Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1995

Description:

roy drama - biography - relationships - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female three parts

'In John Murrell's "The Faraway Nearby", Georgia O'Keefe resigns herself to an old age spent in the auburn and tawny light of her beloved Faraway mountains without the company of others until a stranger enters her life. Juan Hamilton, a young artist and handyman, befriends the elderly O'Keefe, becoming the eyes for the almost-blind artist, and the cushion between her and the outside world. Hamilton remained O'Keefe's companion for over a decade, and it is in the complexities of this friendship that John Murrell explores the uncompromising nature of the artist

Title: Farewell to Kings, A

Author: Massicotte, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2000

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male one act

'Celebrating Anj's return after his father's death and Mouse's 16th birthday (and impending loss of virginity), their leader Hudey has heard of the return of their mentor - the great foozball champion and #1 RUSH fan - Falvo. Together, on the night of nights, cruising in Perkin's Chevy Malibu they search for something great in the midst of their fading friendships. A deadly Hard Rock experience.'

Title: Farther West in - Farther West / New World / CCO Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Coach House Press 1985

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters seven male; four female two acts

"Set in the late 1800's, this erotic and violent odyssey centres around a prostitute who is driven relentlessly westward in her attempts to reconcile her sexual freedom and her quest, as a woman, to create her own rules and environment."

Winner, 1986 Chalmers Canadian Play Award Title: Farther West and New World

Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Coach House Press 1985

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - John Murrell - Alberta playwright

includes: Farther West New World

See separate entries for further description of each play

Title: Farther West and New World

Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Coach House Press 1985

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - John Murrell - Alberta playwright

includes: Farther West New World

See separate entries for further description of each play

Title: Fi Jee and the Two Moons in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy Canadian - children - fable - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

length: 15 min.; setting: China; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.

Drawing inspiration from a Chinese fable, 'Fi Jee and the Two Moons' is a play about how the moon came to be in the sky. Title: Field Mouse Collection, The

Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

collection - children - Alberta playwright - Clem Martini

includes: The Field Mouse

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Field Mouse Collection, The

Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

collection - children - Alberta playwright - Clem Martini

includes: The Field Mouse

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Field, The in - The FieldMouse Collection / CHC Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991

Description:

roy children - Canadian - friendship - Alberta playwright four characters two male; one female; one puppet one act

Lane Marshall has only just arrived in town, and has already discovered the coolest place - the field, an old abandoned farm on the outskirts of the new community. While playing there, Lane uncovers old remains of the people who lived there previously, and makes her first new friend, Arun Sood. The two of them seem to have everything in common until he discovers she's blind, and she discovers his parents are from India, and suddenly everything changes. When Lane's brother, Ben has a terrifying accident Lane and Arun have to reach beyond their differences if they Title: Fine Coloured Easter Egg, A in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy comedy - domestic relations - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

1 set.

'Domestic comedy set in 1950's Alberta. Ukrainian pretends suicide and hides at cousin's house. When his wife arrives, husband must explain actions.'

Title: First Law, The

Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - historical - science - Alberta playwright all male cast; three characters three male one act

A one-act stage drama based on the tragic attempt of Robert Julius Mayer to establish what eventually became the First Law of Thermodynamics.

Title: Flight of the Viscount

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts

setting: across the face of Europe in the Fall of 1891; running time: 110 min.

Noble born James Westerley's carefree European tour is derailed when Maggie, a servant from back home, delivers news of his father's death. It is James' obligation to return home and take care of his father's title. An obligation he wishes to avoid at all costs. That is the starting gun to a comic pursuit played out over the face of Europe as one determined maid's sense of personal Title: Flying to Glory Prairie boys take flight in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Touchwood Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian history - World War II - pilots - Alberta playwright large cast flexible casting two acts

In December of 1939, when the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was formed, four thousand people were enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Six years later that number had risen to 250,000. This play is a dramatic portrayal of how that astonishing transformation occurred. Young men, many of them teenagers, left their homes om the farms and in the small towns and cities of the prairies to learn how to fly - and how to fore weapons, shoot down aircraft and bomb military targets. Lives were changed forever, and far too many were ended. The

Title: Flying to Glory Prairie boys take flight in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Touchwood Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian history - World War II - pilots - Alberta playwright large cast flexible casting two acts

In December of 1939, when the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was formed, four thousand people were enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Six years later that number had risen to 250,000. This play is a dramatic portrayal of how that astonishing transformation occurred. Young men, many of them teenagers, left their homes om the farms and in the small towns and cities of the prairies to learn how to fly - and how to fore weapons, shoot down aircraft and bomb military targets. Lives were changed forever, and far too many were ended. The

Title: Foolish Boy, A in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Graham, Beth Vlaskalic, Daniela Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy Canadian - children - cultures - Alberta playwright eleven characters one male; three female (doubling; flexible casting) one act

running time: 20 min.; setting: Canada; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.

Four people try to tell a folk tale, each from their own heritage. The result is a Canadian collision of cultures. Title: Fools and Masters

Author: DeFelice, James Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters five male one act

1 interior set.

A high-diver in an Italian circus is foiled by the new safety precautions. A leap from the comic-romantic world of circus and illusion to the tragic isolation of death - foreshadowing the rise of fascism in Italy.

Title: Forbidden Phoenix, The

Author: Chan, Marty Walsh, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy musical - Chinese parables - Alberta playwright twelve characters eight male; four female two acts

Sun Wukong’s goal is simple: to feed his son Laoson. Known to his people as the Monkey King, Sun Wukong leaves his home with a promise to return one day and feed the drought-ravaged city of Jung Guo. His path, however, becomes a test of strength, agility, and character as Sun Wukong comes face to face with mysterious, enchanting, and heartless creatures. Inspired by the Chinese opera, The Forbidden Phoenix’s lyricism brings us to a world where Chinese parables are woven with the painful history of the immigrant men who suffered greatly to build Canada’s railroad in

Title: Forsooth, My Lovely A new comedy/mystery Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - mystery - murder - Alberta playwright large cast four male; two female (doubling) two acts

running time: 120 min.

Hard boiled detective BIAM Wood faces his most difficult case ever as he travels to Italy to unravel a scandal involving a rich merchant's young daughter. But he soon finds himself drawn into a whirlwind of crime, blackmail and murder with a cast of suspects including Scottish witches, star-crossed lovers, a pack of jesters and strong willed woman people call a shrew. A mystery Title: Four by Four by Four

Author: Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - one-acts - scenes - monologues - Alberta playwrights

Four dangerously entertaining plays, four performable monologues, four memorable scenes. For performance, for scene study, for use as a teaching tool or for use in auditioning.

includes the following four plays: Shopaholic - Glenda Stirling Monkey Business - Nicole Zylstra The Wild Guys - Andrew Wreggitt & Rebecca Shaw Borrow Me - Clem Martini

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Four in the Crib

Author: Edwards, Linda Wood Publisher: Miscellaneous 2012

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - seniors - full script online - Alberta playwright four characters one male; three female one act

setting: a common room in a seniors' facility; running time: 60 min.

Sex! Murder! Intrigue! Who knew cribbage could be this much fun? Four seniors struggle to keep their independence, stay active, and get over the skunk line at a weekly cribbage tournament.

The digital copy of the play will download automatically through Google Drive when you click

Title: Free Beer

Author: Whyte, Thomas Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

1 interior set.

A warm and human comedy about two old people. Cyriack, in his 80's, concocts a scheme to coerce his daughter Hortensia, and her husband, Reginald, both in their 60's, into sharing his big, empty house. Cyriack's ploy is to put up a huge sign on the front of Reginald's house reading "Free Beer". Title: Free Beer

Author: Whyte, Thomas Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

1 interior set.

A warm and human comedy about two old people. Cyriack, in his 80's, concocts a scheme to coerce his daughter Hortensia, and her husband, Reginald, both in their 60's, into sharing his big, empty house. Cyriack's ploy is to put up a huge sign on the front of Reginald's house reading "Free Beer".

Title: From Here to Insanity

Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: William Rosewood Publishing 1995

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female three acts

"A psychiatrist's ex-wife ends up playing hostess to several extraordinary patients with multiple personalities, when the nearby mental hospital burns down."

Title: Frozen Water Fortunes, The

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act

suggested for high school; running time: 95 min.

In Victorian Blackpool two maids on vacation overhear a con artist's latest scheme. With nothing but their wits, shaky nerves and improvised strategy they determine not only to foil the criminal, but extract a measure of justice. A comic adventure of dastardly deceit and domestic daring. Title: Funeral Fore! in - Palliser Suite / CCO Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Frontenac House 2014

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - family relations five characters three male; two female one act

part 3 of a trilogy of plays called "Palliser Suite"; can be produced as a one act or in conjunction with the other two, "Mr. Fix It" and "Second Chance, First Love".

Family is complicated and this is never as clear as in the death of a parent. In "Funeral Fore!", two brothers deal with the death of their father, revelations, competition and laughs. Holed up in a hotel room, funeral planning has never been funnier.

Title: Furies, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - tragedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; eight characters eight female one act

1 set.

'Old Indian takes punishment of rapists of her granddaughter into her own hands.'

Title: Furies, The in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934 - 1984 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - tragedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; eight characters eight female one act

1 set.

'Old Indian takes punishment of rapists of her granddaughter into her own hands.' Title: Garage Sale in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Penguin Books 1984

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - seniors - Alberta playwright - aging two characters one male; one female one act

"Elderly couple reflect on the loneliness of old age."

Title: Garage Sale in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - seniors - aging two characters one male; one female one act

'Elderly couple reflect on the loneliness of old age.'

Title: Gas Girls

Author: St. Bernard, Donna-Michelle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - social issues - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female twenty-two scenes

St. Bernard’s award-winning play, Gas Girls, is a look at the lives of two sex trade workers in an economically depressed region. Plying her trade with the truckers at the Zimbabwean border, Gigi works for gas. Her young protégé, Lola, wants to learn and can’t figure out why it isn’t love she is finding. Gas Girls was honoured with Alberta Theatre Projects’ Enbridge Emerging PlayRites Award in March 2009, placed second in Queen’s University’s Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition in Title: Generations in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 1981

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female two acts

"The attitudes of three generations towards the family homestead are examined in this naturalistic evocation of a prairie farm kitchen in the 1980's."

Title: Generations in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1984

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female two acts

"The attitudes of three generations towards the family homestead are examined in this naturalistic evocation of a prairie farm kitchen in the 1980's."

Title: Generations in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works: Volume One / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female two acts

"The attitudes of three generations towards the family homestead are examined in this naturalistic evocation of a prairie farm kitchen in the 1980's." Title: Generations in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female two acts

"The attitudes of three generations towards the family homestead are examined in this naturalistic evocation of a prairie farm kitchen in the 1980's."

Title: Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play

Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998

Description:

roy drama - horror - historical - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

"A theatrical re-creation of the emotional events surrounding Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley-- events that inspired the literary births of our two most famous monsters Frankenstein and Dracula."

Title: Gertrude and Ophelia As published in Theatrum Magazine (April/May 1993) / PER Author: Clarke, Margaret Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama - theatre - Alberta playwright six characters one male; two female two acts

A rehearsal for the play, "Gertrude and Ophelia". Title: Getting it Straight in - Heroines: Three Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1992

Description:

roy monologue - Canadian - Alberta playwright - drama all female cast; one character one female one act

Thoughts of a woman suffering from mental illness.

Title: Getting it Straight in - Voice of Her Own / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy monologue - Canadian - drama - women - mental illness - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

Thoughts of a woman suffering from mental illness.

Title: Getting it Straight in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy monologue - Alberta playwright - Canadian - drama - mental illness all female cast; one character one female one act

Thoughts of a woman suffering from mental illness. Title: Giraffe in Paris, A in - Things That Go Bump v. 2 / CHC Author: Haroun, Mark Publisher: Signature Editions 2010

Description:

roy children - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters two male; two female (doubling) one act

setting: Egypt, Nile River, Mediterranean Sea, France (early 1800s).

The play, based on the true story of a giraffe given to the King of France as a gift from the King of Egypt in 1827, follows the adventures of Egyptian prince Amen-Ra and Zarafa the giraffe as they make the trek from the Nile River all the way to Paris, encountering a host of troubles along the way.

Title: Girls in the Gang in - The Dreamland & Girls in the Gang / CCO Author: Storey, Raymond Roby, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989

Description:

roy Canadian - musical - Alberta playwright eight characters four male; four female two acts

"The story of the infamous Boyd Gang is told by the women who aided and abetted them, and in the end, betrayed them."

Title: Glorious 12th, The

Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright fifteen characters eight male; seven female two acts

1927 was a difficult year for the Orange Lodge. The House of Commons was now officially bilingual. French appeared on our postage stamp, refugees from continental Europe fled to Canada to share in our prosperity. The story of this play is fiction but its historical background is not. Opportunistic Klansmen crossed our borders to prey on the fears of our citizens. The cross burning at Kingston occurred. The debate and hate-mongering is documented. Title: Glorious 12th, The

Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright fifteen characters eight male; seven female two acts

1927 was a difficult year for the Orange Lodge. The House of Commons was now officially bilingual. French appeared on our postage stamp, refugees from continental Europe fled to Canada to share in our prosperity. The story of this play is fiction but its historical background is not. Opportunistic Klansmen crossed our borders to prey on the fears of our citizens. The cross burning at Kingston occurred. The debate and hate-mongering is documented.

Title: Goodbye Cruel World

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

1 interior set.

Rather than face the disintegration of old age, an aging author decides to commit suicide. He hires a young man to write his autobiography and a lawyer to draw up his will. In the process, love at all ages is examined.

Title: Goodbye Cruel World

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

1 interior set.

Rather than face the disintegration of old age, an aging author decides to commit suicide. He hires a young man to write his autobiography and a lawyer to draw up his will. In the process, love at all ages is examined. Title: Grand Time in the Rapids, A

Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - farce - Alberta playwright - comedy three characters two male; one female two acts

Stewart Lemoine’s classic door-slamming, drink-throwing, towel-wearing farce, in which a well-intentioned etiquette expert’s earnest attempts to spread the gospel of gracious living create utter chaos for unsuspecting Michigan citizens.

Title: Gravel Run

Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

A wildly dysfunctional family plans a small-town wedding for a prodigal daughter who returns home after a five-year absence.

Title: Gravel Run

Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

2 interior sets.

A wildly dysfunctional family plans a small-town wedding for a prodigal daughter who returns home after a five-year absence. Title: Gravel Run in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts

A wildly dysfunctional family plans a small-town wedding for a prodigal daughter who returns home after a five-year absence.

Title: Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble

Author: Graham, Beth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - family relations - mental illness four characters one male; three female one act

Iris Trimble is trying to hold it all together. She may very well fly off the face of the earth if she doesn't hang on to the kitchen counter. At least that's how she feels after her mother, Bernice, a lively, recently widowed fifty-five-year-old breaks the news that she has early onset Alzheimer's. In an effort to cope with the stress, Iris makes her mother's famous Everything-That-Is-Bad-For-You casserole, a childhood favourite. Her siblings, on the other hand, are on opposite sides of the spectrum: Sara, the eldest, irately calls for a second opinion,

Title: Great Wave Of Civilization, The

Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talonbooks 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Alberta playwright seventeen characters thirteen male; four female ten scenes

The Great Wave of Civilization is Herschel Hardin's play about the destruction of the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy by the liquor trade in Montana and Alberta in the 19th Century. Little Dog of the Northern Blackfoot tribe vs. Snookum Jim, free trader, I.G. Baker, merchant-prince of Fort Benton and the rest of the "great wave of civilization". Title: Great Wave Of Civilization, The

Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talonbooks 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Alberta playwright seventeen characters thirteen male; four female ten scenes

The Great Wave of Civilization is Herschel Hardin's play about the destruction of the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy by the liquor trade in Montana and Alberta in the 19th Century. Little Dog of the Northern Blackfoot tribe vs. Snookum Jim, free trader, I.G. Baker, merchant-prince of Fort Benton and the rest of the "great wave of civilization".

Title: Greece! is the Word

Author: Mastel, Ken Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy musical comedy - Alberta playwright - high school twenty characters eight male; eight female (doubling) one act

Running time: 70 minutes; 1 setting.

A parody, the 50's musical "Grease" set in Ancient Greece. Medusa is the beauty school teacher, a chariot become "greece lightning". Teenage hi-jinx started a long time ago! Two modern teens David and Mandy, are in the detention room. David bad mouths Zeus, but Zeus was listening. He transports them back in time to ancient Greece, to Athens Pi High. There they meet all the classic

Title: Greek Playwright, The What the first dramatists have to say to contemporary playwrights Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

Reference - playwriting - Alberta playwright

The Greek Playwright outlines the major playwrights of the ancient Greek era, their major plays, and the impact they had on our modern understanding of drama. Clem Martini weaves his direct, informative, and entertaining style through centuries of dramatic evolution to show us exactly what the first dramatists have to say to contemporary playwrights. Title: Guide to Mourning, A

Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - funeral - family - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts

"Wally Pringle is dead. His wife Deirdre mourns. The family gathers. The story of the Pringle family's quest to give Wally a decent funeral."

Title: Guide to Mourning, A

Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - funeral - family - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts

"Wally Pringle is dead. His wife Deirdre mourns. The family gathers. The story of the Pringle family's quest to give Wally a decent funeral."

Title: Guide to Mourning, A in - Two Plays / CCO Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1999

Description:

roy dark comedy - Canadian - family relations - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female two acts

"This play is a dark comedy whose backdrop is the death of a father and husband. The widow deals with her loss in a series of practical and bizarre acts, which include laying tissue paper all over the house. Her children return home, and as funeral arrangements proceed, events become more fantastic - from the arrival of the minister, who's drunk, to the theft of a pair of running shoes." Title: Hand That Cradles the Rock, The

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Samuel French 1972

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts

1 interior set.

Alexandra is in demand as an interior designer so her husband, Ross, agrees to stay home and raise the baby. An erratic washing machine, baby formula and an increasingly-attractive local nurse bring on housewife syndrome and make him fear for his masculinity.

Title: Hand That Cradles the Rock, The

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Samuel French 1972

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts

1 interior set.

Alexandra is in demand as an interior designer so her husband, Ross, agrees to stay home and raise the baby. An erratic washing machine, baby formula and an increasingly-attractive local nurse bring on housewife syndrome and make him fear for his masculinity.

Title: Hand That Cradles the Rock, The

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Samuel French 1972

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts

1 interior set.

Alexandra is in demand as an interior designer so her husband, Ross, agrees to stay home and raise the baby. An erratic washing machine, baby formula and an increasingly-attractive local nurse bring on housewife syndrome and make him fear for his masculinity. Title: Happy Toes in - Witness to a Conga and Other Plays / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press

Description:

roy comedy - mystery - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female one act

Happy Toes is a contemporary comedy with a mystery at its centre. Good friends Tony and Edgar, a pair of recreational runners, become intrigued when a third friend, Alex suspects his wife Janine of a decidedly peculiar form of infidelity. Their efforts to better understand this particular predicament has far-reaching and unexpected consequences involving an affable bank teller, a chamber music concert gone terribly awry, and a startling collection of emotional outpourings, all of which lead to a surprising conclusion with a delicious international twist.

Title: Harriott!

Author: Botting, Gary Publisher: Harden House 1972

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female one act

1 interior set.

A comedy about Harriott, the mad scientist, who experiments with tobacco, rabbits and seaweed, and is visited by Sir Walter Raleigh and Christopher Marlowe.

Title: Harusame, the Little Bird in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Matsunaga-Turnbull, Jared Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy Canadian - children - fables - Alberta playwright eight characters one male; three female (doubling) one act

running: 15 min.; setting: Canada; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.

Fable about a little bird with broken wings. Title: Harvest in - Harvest and Other Plays / CCO Author: Cameron, Ken Publisher: NeWest Press 2010

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - seniors - Alberta playwright twelve characters one male; one female (doubling) two acts

Cameron turns a real-life incident involving his parents into a comedy about a rural couple who unwittingly rent out their farm to a marijuana grow-op.

Title: Harvest and Other Plays

Author: Cameron, Ken Publisher: NeWest Press 2010

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Ken Cameron - Alberta playwright

includes: Harvest My Morocco My One and Only

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Haven

Author: Penman, Steve Publisher: Steve Penman n.d.

Description:

roy drama - relationships - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

1 interior set

A streetwise teenage girl and her country grandmother must learn to get along and accept each other's strengths and weaknesses. Title: High Green Gate, The in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - Alberta playwright nine characters four male; four female; one girl radio play

'Radio play set in 1952 Canadian city examines institution of marriage and need for healthy and safe child care.'

Title: Hoarse Muse

Author: Campbell, Paddy Skolnik, Wm. Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1974

Description:

roy political comedy - Alberta playwright twelve characters eight male; four female two acts

1 interior set; music by William Skolnik.

An irreverent look at the social and political climate in turn-of-the-century Calgary, through the jaded eye of Bob Edwards - the founder and editor of the famous (and, at times infamous) newspaper, "The Calgary Eye Opener".

Title: Hoarse Muse in - Popular Performance Plays of Canada, Volume I / CCO Author: Campbell, Paddy Skolnik, Wm. Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1976

Description:

roy political comedy - Alberta playwright twelve characters eight male; four female two acts

1 interior set; music by William Skolnik.

An irreverent look at the social and political climate in turn-of-the-century Calgary, through the jaded eye of Bob Edwards - the founder and editor of the famous (and, at times infamous) newspaper, "The Calgary Eye Opener". Title: Holy Mo and Spew Boy

Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1977

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; three characters three female two acts

'A reverently irreverent post-modern romp through the Old Testament from creation to King Solomon, not for the religiously faint of heart. Three fools endeavor to shake the dust off of ancient tales and a bring a cast of thousands to life. Follie tries to keep the stories going, what she can remember of them, while Guff throws dinosaurs into Genesis and Bufoona demands to play a princess instead of King David. good for all ages and people of all faiths. Wildly acclaimed, sold out Vancouver hit, produced four times in five years.'

Title: Homesick in - Conni Massing: Two Plays / CCO Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - family relationships - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

Rhona needs advice from her mother, Clara, about how to bake bread and what to do about her deadbeat boyfriend, her stalled country and western singing career, and an unexpected pregnancy. Rhona’s quest for guidance is derailed by the death of her maternal grandmother, which triggers an avalanche of unresolved feelings for the whole family, as well as signs of life from Rhona’s comatose father, Cliff. While Clara slips further into the past, Cliff struggles to regain the present; and once boyfriend Gary arrives on the scene, Rhona is forced to deal with her

Title: Homestead in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy Canadian drama - relationships - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

'First performed with the title 'The Man Who Wouldn't Fight Back'. Revised version performed with title 'God made the Country'. Drama set in 1930 Canada. Married woman, unhappy with life of homesteading, has an affair with bachelor neighbor.' Title: House of Glass in - A Three Martini Lunch / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters one male; two female (doubling) five scenes

"In 'House of Glass' twelve-year-old Ellen must make amends with her obsessive neighbour Beth for stealing condoms from her store."

Title: Hungry Spirit, The Selected Plays and Prose Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - biography - Alberta playwright

This is a collection of plays and prose by Elsie Park Gowan a long time resident of Edmonton, and a very active member of the Alberta theatre community.

includes: Homestead The Hungry Spirit Back To The Kitchen, Woman! The Last Caveman High Green Gate Breeches From Bond Street.

Title: Hungry Spirit, The in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - historical - feminism - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act

'Drama set in 1930's Canadian West. Young woman, to the dismay of family, opts to attend university rather than marry.' Title: I Don't Care What it Looks Like, As Long as It's Warm

Author: Foord, Isabelle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy children - tragicomedy - Alberta playwright - canadian sixteen characters flexible casting one act

Description not available.

Title: I Fell in Love with an Eel

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1991

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

"Edward loves Donna. He waters plants for a living. Donna loves Gus. She's a parking lot attendant. Gus works in a candy factory. He loves the eel. Three people searching for the perfect relationship."

Title: I Shave My Toes Monologues for the ethnically diverse female Author: Miller, Michele Makrouhi Publisher: Dizzy Emu Publishing 2016

Description:

original monologues - Alberta playwright - ethnic theatre - women

Contains monologues written specifically for the ethnically diverse female.

The monologues and scenes in the Breathtakingly Original Series were written specifically for the age ranges and genders specified. That said, many have been adapted for both genders, and adapted for the handicap-able actor as well. They may be used, studied, performed in Universities, High Schools, Junior Schools, Senior Centers, and Acting Schools, private or public. Title: Illegal Entry

Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; three characters three male three acts

Three teens escape from a group home for young offenders, intending to head out to the west-coast and freedom. To raise funds for this enabling enterprise, they attempt to burglarize a house. Things take an unexpected turn when they suddenly find themselves trapped in the garage. One of them happens upon an electric sander and they decide to sand their way to freedom.

Title: Illegal Entry

Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; three characters three male three acts

"Three teens escape from a group home for young offenders, intending to head out to the west-coast and freedom. To raise funds for this enabling enterprise, they attempt to burglarize a house. Things take an unexpected turn when they suddenly find themselves trapped in the garage. One of them happens upon an electric sander and they decide to sand their way to freedom."

Title: Illegal Entry

Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; three characters three male three acts

Three teens escape from a group home for young offenders, intending to head out to the west-coast and freedom. To raise funds for this enabling enterprise, they attempt to burglarize a house. Things take an unexpected turn when they suddenly find themselves trapped in the garage. One of them happens upon an electric sander and they decide to sand their way to freedom. Title: Illegal Entry

Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; three characters three male three acts

"Three teens escape from a group home for young offenders, intending to head out to the west-coast and freedom. To raise funds for this enabling enterprise, they attempt to burglarize a house. Things take an unexpected turn when they suddenly find themselves trapped in the garage. One of them happens upon an electric sander and they decide to sand their way to freedom."

Title: Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp in - Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp and Other Plays / CCO Author: Brooker, Blake Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - musical - social comedy - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

A nasty musical comedy about one man and his angry denial of the holocaust.

Title: Impro Improvisation and the Theatre Author: Johnstone, Keith Publisher: Routledge 1992

Description:

Acting/Auditions - Alberta playwright

"Divided into four sections, 'Status', 'Spontaneity', 'Narrative Skills' and 'Masks and Trance', arranged more or less in the order a group might approach them, the book sets out the specific techniques and exercises which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is both an ideas book and a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity." Title: Impro Improvisation and the Theatre Author: Johnstone, Keith Publisher: Routledge 1992

Description:

Acting/Auditions - Alberta playwright

"Divided into four sections, 'Status', 'Spontaneity', 'Narrative Skills' and 'Masks and Trance', arranged more or less in the order a group might approach them, the book sets out the specific techniques and exercises which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is both an ideas book and a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity."

Title: Impro for Storytellers

Author: Johnstone, Keith Publisher: Faber and Faber 1994

Description:

Drama Projects/Teaching Aids - Alberta playwright

Includes information on Theatresports, Audience suggestions, Feedback, Spontaneity, Impro for storytellers, Story Games, Procedures, Miscellaneous Games.

Title: Impro for Storytellers

Author: Johnstone, Keith Publisher: Faber and Faber 1994

Description:

Drama Projects/Teaching Aids - Alberta playwright

Includes information on Theatresports, Audience suggestions, Feedback, Spontaneity, Impro for storytellers, Story Games, Procedures, Miscellaneous Games. Title: In a Blue Moon

Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Talonbooks 2016

Description:

roy drama - grief - family relationships - Alberta playwright - Canada three characters one male; two female two acts

When Frankie’s dad dies, her mom, Ava, can’t afford to live in the city anymore. The only asset they’re left with is a farmhouse situated on twenty acres of land far outside of town. Ava decides to move there and start an Ayurveda clinic on the property, giving her precocious and grieving daughter a new start. One problem presents itself, though: a squatter who won’t leave. Will, professional photographer, long-estranged brother-in-law to Ava, and uncle to Frankie, lives rent-free on the farm and isn’t eager to give up his space. While mother and daughter face the

Title: In Spirit

Author: Beagan, Tara Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - social issues - murder - native playwright - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

Twelve-year-old Molly was riding her new bicycle on a deserted road when a man in a truck pulled up next to her, saying he was lost. He asked if she could get in and help him back to the highway, and said he could bring her back to her bike after. Molly declined, out of interest for her own safety. The next things Molly remembers are dirt, branches, trees, pain, and darkness. Molly is now a spirit. Mustering up some courage, she pieces together her short life for herself and her

Title: In the Cards

Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: William Rosewood Publishing 1995

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts

"A reluctant psychic's powers cause her no end of trouble with her fated romance." Title: Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh, The in - Things That Go Bump v. 2 / CHC Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: Signature Editions 2010

Description:

roy children - comedy - Canadian - bullying - Alberta playwright fifteen characters two male; two female (doubling) one act

Fast-paced, funny, and full of energy, "The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh" tackles the issues of bullying, peer pressure, learning disorders, and children’s struggles to fit in. It is an insightful story of three young people who discover hope, tolerance, and friendship in their journey to understanding and acceptance. Jamie and Max are best friends – she’s a trouble magnet who thinks her ADHD is some kind of amazing ‘super speed’ superpower and he’s the smartest kid in his grade. But when Jamie tries to help Max against a bully named Rock, her ‘super

Title: Indulgences

Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters seven male; one female two acts

A rumpled Salesman of metaphysical wares stumbles upon two Shakespearian Princes plotting to murder the King, in order to live free as a gay couple. Meanwhile the Prince changes places with an ordinary man, and no one seems to notice. A farcical murder plot unravels as the Salesman disobeys God and goes his own way. This is a wild comedy of intellect in the tradition of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead".

Title: Inside Out in - NeWest Plays by Women / CCO Author: Boyd, Pamela Publisher: NeWest Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - monologues - women - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

"A day in the life of a writer and her 18-month -old son." Title: Inside the Sand Castle A romantic comedy with improv Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - improv - romance four characters three male; one female two acts

running time: 110 min.

When two brothers recruit a woman to join their failing improv comedy act. It brings not only success, but also romantic entanglements that put everything at risk. The scripted plot is advanced by sets of improvisational performance in this unique, hilarious and touching fusion of two theatrical forms.

Title: Invention of Music, The in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female one act

A mismatched pod of whales in the Pacific Ocean contend with identity, love, and interspecies dating. "Three bull whales retreat from their usual oceanic care to a remote portion of the South Pacific to determine how their lives have gone so drastically awry. When a mysterious female orca appears, the already tenuous balance of the lagoon is upset and the facade of control collapses." - Lunchbox Theatre

Title: Invention of Romance, The

Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016

Description:

roy comedy - romance - Alberta playwright ten characters one male; two female (doubling) two acts

"Kate, a curator at a museum, takes on the investigation of romance as a personal and professional challenge. Her love life hilariously spirals into crisis just as her elderly mother rekindles a romance with a man she dated sixty years earlier." Title: Invention of Romance, The

Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016

Description:

roy comedy - romance - Alberta playwright ten characters one male; two female (doubling) two acts

"Kate, a curator at a museum, takes on the investigation of romance as a personal and professional challenge. Her love life hilariously spirals into crisis just as her elderly mother rekindles a romance with a man she dated sixty years earlier."

Title: It's all make believe, isn't it? - Marilyn Monroe in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright⌦all female cast; two characters two female one act

"Marilyn Monroe" and her companion prepare for a visitor.

Title: It's all make believe, isn't it? - Marilyn Munroe in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - Alberta playwright all female cast; two characters two female one act

"Marilyn Monroe" and her companion prepare for a visitor. Title: Jack and the Joker, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright seven characters three male; four female one act

1 setting.

'Based on an incident in Canada, 1904. Wife of local shyster tries to prevent newspaper editor from publishing scandals about him.'

Title: Jake and the Kid

Author: Mitchell, W. O. Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2009

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters four males; two females two acts

Adapted by Conni Massing from W.O. Mitchell's famous short story collection.

The play is set in 1943, in and around the town of Crocus, where there’s a serious drought in progress. Jake’s boast that he can make rain, challenged by his old neighbour Gate and innocently promoted by the Kid, culminates in a high stakes public display that endangers Jake’s reputation as well as the Kid’s faith in his beloved mentor.

Title: Jesus Master Builder - A Divine Comedy

Author: Greene, Mark Allan Publisher: Miscellaneous 2016

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - religion - Alberta playwright - full script online thirteen characters five male; two female (doubling) one act

running time: 60 min.

The Bible tells us that Jesus was a carpenter. That's it. End of storyline. How unsatisfying! There are so many unanswered questions. What did he build? Was he good at it? When did he ever find the time? "Jesus Master Builder" takes over that story where the Bible left off, and answers the above questions: He built Homes; He was a lousy carpenter; and He had much better (and Holier) Title: Jim Forgetting

Author: Cseke, Col Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2013

Description:

roy drama - Alzheimer's disease - love - marriage - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female one act

"Jim Forgetting" is an unflinching portrait of a year in the life of Jim and Donna, a middle-aged couple struggling with Jim’s early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. While watching her husband slowly disappear, Donna’s patience and love is pushed to heartbreaking limits. She is left to ask: When love is composed of moments remembered and dreams shared, what happens to a marriage when memories fade and futures disappear? "Jim Forgetting" is an unforgettable story of one woman’s decision.

Title: Judgement of Clifford Sifton, The

Author: Truss, Jan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979

Description:

roy children - Canadian - drama - historical - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act; thirteen scenes

Short dramatic episodes reveal some of the results of Sifton's European advertising campaign, which brought floods of (sometimes badly prepared) pioneers to the Canadian West.

Title: Junkyard

Author: Foord, Isabelle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973

Description:

roy children - fantasy - participation play - Alberta playwright five characters; two male; one female; one boy; one girl one act

timely fantasy for children 6-10; ideal for schools.

A group of kids organize to protect their junkyard-playground against the adult forces of the "Cleaner World for Tomorrow" Committee. Opportunities for audience participation. Title: Kabloona Talk in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male two acts

The Kabloona (White Man) thought to bring the Rule of Law to the North with the 1917 trial of Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, charged with the murder of two Catholic priests in the Arctic Barrens. But is innocence or guilt secondary to the Government’s sovereign and economic interests? A verdict is in, and a back room quickly replaces the Court Room. The gloves are off as a mysterious figure dictates strategy and manipulates Prosecutor, Defense and Judge as they square off in the interests of Justice as each sees it.⌦Will the clash of cultures determine innocence or national

Title: Kabloona Talk in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male two acts

The Kabloona (White Man) thought to bring the Rule of Law to the North with the 1917 trial of Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, charged with the murder of two Catholic priests in the Arctic Barrens. But is innocence or guilt secondary to the Government’s sovereign and economic interests? A verdict is in, and a back room quickly replaces the Court Room. The gloves are off as a mysterious figure dictates strategy and manipulates Prosecutor, Defense and Judge as they square off in the interests of Justice as each sees it. Will the clash of cultures determine innocence or national

Title: Komagata Maru Incident, The

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act

The true story of the ignorance and racism which, in 1914, prevented a ship carrying East Indian immigrants from docking in Vancouver harbour. Title: Komagata Maru Incident, The in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright - racism - British Columbia six characters three male; three female one act

The true story of the ignorance and racism which, in 1914, prevented a ship carrying East Indian immigrants from docking in Vancouver harbour.

Title: Komagata Maru Incident, The in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act

The true story of the ignorance and racism which, in 1914, prevented a ship carrying East Indian immigrants from docking in Vancouver harbour.

Title: Komagata Maru Incident, The in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works: Volume One / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act

The true story of the ignorance and racism which, in 1914, prevented a ship carrying East Indian immigrants from docking in Vancouver harbour. Title: Lament for Harmonica (Maya) in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragedy - Alberta playwright - Native peoples seven characters two male; five female one act

'Half-Indian girl's hopes to leave reservation are destroyed by arrival of former white lover.'

Title: Lament for Harmonica (Maya) in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - Native peoples seven characters two male; five female one act

'Half-Indian girl's hopes to leave reservation are destroyed by arrival of former white lover.'

Title: Lament for Harmonica (Maya) in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - Native peoples seven characters two male; five female one act

'Half-Indian girl's hopes to leave reservation are destroyed by arrival of former white lover.' Title: Land of Magic Spell in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Volume 4 / CHC Author: Zacharko, Larry Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1974

Description:

roy children - Canadian - fantasy - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; one female (doubling) one act

intended for audience ages 7 to 10.

A prospector loses his mule in the Land of the Magic Spell, and Mountain Man has lost the letters from his favorite alphabet. He offers to grant the prospector one wish if he can find them, and off he goes.

Title: Land, The Animals, The in - Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp and Other Plays / CCO Author: Brooker, Blake Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

In an attempt to discover why a forlorn geologist committed suicide, three scientists investigate the land and the animals of a modern city in the future.

Title: Land, The Animals, The As published in Theatrum Magazine (June/July/Aug 1991) Author: Brooker, Blake Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

In an attempt to discover why a forlorn geologist committed suicide, three scientists investigate the land and the animals of a modern city in the future. Title: Last Bird, The

Author: Johnstone, Keith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright seventeen characters thirteen male; four female (doubling possible) two acts

Headstone has the wounds of Christ. Death fights Jesus for control of the world. An angel is captured and interrogated. It's a colonial war...

Title: Last Bus, The

Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

The death of a childhood friend brings Robert back to his home town where he forms an uneasy relationship with his dead friend's outcast girlfriend. Together they try to come to terms with past, present and future.

Title: Last Bus, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 51, Summer 1987 / PER Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Miscellaneous 1987

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

The death of a childhood friend brings Robert back to his home town where he forms an uneasy relationship with his dead friend's outcast girlfriend. Together they try to come to terms with past, present and future. Title: Last Caveman, The in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright eleven characters eight male; three female one act

'Comedy set in 1946 Alberta. Provincial family arms itself in misguided effort to defend their land.'

Title: Last Real Summer, The

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright eight characters three male; five female two acts

open stage.

In this memory play, the older Lizzie reflects on her youth and the choices which led her to her current unrest.

Title: Leave of Absence

Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Talonbooks 2013

Description:

roy dark comedy - sexuality - community - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts

The booming bedroom community outside a large Canadian city is blown apart when fifteen-year-old Blake challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. A student at the local Catholic high school, Blake confides in her best friend Tracy that she feels sexually attracted to her. At first encouraged and then rebuffed, Blake is eventually betrayed. Increasingly at risk among her peers, Blake finds the watchful and strict eyes of her Catholic school are no protection. Vulnerable to collectivized hatred, she remains unprotected by the adults who guard her freedom Title: Lenin's Embalmers

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy dark comedy - historical - Canadian - Russia - Alberta playwright eight characters; extras seven male; one female two acts

Russia. 1924. Two scientists are assigned an impossible task: make Vladimir Lenin live forever, or face death. Based on a true story, Governor General’s Literary Award-winning playwright Vern Thiessen brings us a dark comedy that brings to light the resilience of the human spirit, ever-changing war games, and the importance of always having vodka on hand.

Title: Let the Light of Day Through

Author: Doyle, Collin Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - family relations two characters one male; one female one act

running time: 90 min.

Thirty-something couple Rob and Chris have the "perfect" childless marriage - complete with passion, excitement and pleasure (not to mention frequent bouts of kinky motel sex). Six years ago however, Rob and Chris were Bobby and Tina. Bobby and Tina started dating in high school. They are each other's first date, first kiss, first love. But just before high school

Title: Letters in Wartime

Author: Brown, Kenneth Scriver, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - war - romance - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female seven scenes

"During World War II, Allan, a young RCAF pilot, and Moira, an auxiliary worker at the Blatchford Field in Edmonton, try desperately to maintain their long-distance relationship. But is the printed word enough to keep love alive in a world turned upside down?" Title: Letters in Wartime in - The West of All Possible Worlds / CCO Author: Brown, Kenneth Scriver, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - war - romance - Alberta playwright - Edmonton two characters one male; one female seven scenes

"During World War II, Allan, a young RCAF pilot, and Moira, an auxiliary worker at the Blatchford Field in Edmonton, try desperately to maintain their long-distance relationship. But is the printed word enough to keep love alive in a world turned upside down?"

Title: Letters in Wartime

Author: Brown, Kenneth Scriver, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - war - romance - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts

"During World War II, Allan, a young RCAF pilot, and Moira, an auxiliary worker at the Blatchford Field in Edmonton, try desperately to maintain their long-distance relationship. But is the printed word enough to keep love alive in a world turned upside down?"

Title: Life After Hockey in - Five from the Fringe / CCO Author: Brown, Kenneth Publisher: NeWest Press 1986

Description:

roy comedy - monologue - men - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male one act

No abstract available. Title: Life History of the African Elephant in - Escape Acts / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NuAge Editions 1989

Description:

roy Canadian - black comedy - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

'Depressed elephant keeper and accident-prone woman discover connection between their tragic pasts.'

Title: Life History of the African Elephant in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

roy Canadian - black comedy - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

'Depressed elephant keeper and accident-prone woman discover connection between their tragic pasts.'

Title: Lig and Bittle in - Things That Go Bump v. 2 / CHC Author: Quan, Elyne Matsunaga-Turnbull, Jared Publisher: Signature Editions 2010

Description:

roy comedy - children - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters; two narrators one male; one female (doubling) one act

suggested for Kindergarten to grade 6.

Lig & Bittle is about two people trying to find their place in a hard-to-fit-in world. Lig who is big and Bittle who is little are invited to Perfeckt Phitt – a mysterious place where they will fit in. On their adventure they discover many things about themselves, about friendship and about what it means to be different from those around you. This engaging and energetic production celebrates Title: Lilly, Alta.

Author: Dyba, Kenneth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright three characters; extras one male; two female two acts

"When two lovers attempt to free themselves from the obsessive matriarch who rules Lilly, Alberta, they unleash a chain of events which forever alters this small prairie town. The play is set in 1952, underscored with song and music, and punctuated with the comic antics and dramatic entanglements of the town's forty-six colourful human, animal and bird characters."

Title: Lilly, Alta.

Author: Dyba, Kenneth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright three characters; extras one male; two female two acts

"When two lovers attempt to free themselves from the obsessive matriarch who rules Lilly, Alberta, they unleash a chain of events which forever alters this small prairie town. The play is set in 1952, underscored with song and music, and punctuated with the comic antics and dramatic entanglements of the town's forty-six colourful human, animal and bird characters."

Title: Listen to the Drum in - A Blizzard Leaves No Footprints and Other Plays / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy children - Canadian - Native peoples - folklore - participation play - Alberta playwright eleven characters one male; one female; nine male or female one act

intended audience ages 4 to 9.

An Inuit legend of how the Raven made the world. Title: Little Dickens on the Air, A

Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous 2017

Description:

roy comedy - Christmas - Canadian - Alberta playwright nine characters three male; five female; one male or female three acts

Running time: 90 mins; setting - a radio station sound stage in 1940s New York.

A hybrid of regular play and "Radio Play for the Stage," this fun to perform Christmas yarn concerns a cast of voice actors doing the Scrooge story in the 1940s who must carry on despite missing half of their cast, or lose their jobs. Lots of room for comedic, pre-planned "ad-libs" to keep things rolling during narration.

Title: Lodge, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright ten characters five male; five female one act

3 sets.

'Reunion at family's old hunting lodge is upset, as members who love the wilderness argue with those who see area as profitable and exploitable.'

Title: Love and Human Remains

Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1996

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Brad Fraser - Alberta playwright

includes: Love and Human Remains Unidentified Human Remains and The True Nature of Love

See separate entries for further descriptions of each play. Title: Love and Human Remains in - Love and Human Remains / CCO Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1996

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - relationships - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female hundred-and-fifty vignettes

The screenplay for the movie Love & Human Remains - based on the play Unidentified Human Remains and The True Nature of Love.

"Love & Human Remains is a dark comedy about people searching for love and family in the '90s. The play focuses on roommates/ex-lovers David, a cynical actor-turned-waiter, and Candy, an ever-hopeful book reviewer, and their hilarious, often poignant entanglements with a psychic

Title: Love's Kitchen in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Sewell, Anna Marie Sewell, Cathy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy musical - family relations - Native peoples - Alberta playwright all female cast; two characters two female one act

'Set entirely in the kitchen of Sarah Roy, "Love's Kitchen" is, as its name suggests, a love-in for the departed Auntie Isobel (A.K.A. Auntie Love), a beloved matriarchal force in the lives of Roy and her sister Imogene. The fact that Auntie Love's body has been laid out in one of the most fundamental rooms of the house in a homemade coffin on wheels makes her stage presence enormously powerful and, at times, humorously grotesque.'

Title: Madame Chairman

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1996

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female two acts

running time: 90 min.

No further description available. Title: Madonna of the Wilderness

Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy Canadian - Alberta playwright - monologue all female cast; one character one female one scene

running time: 3 min.

When your baby is sick, where to you go?

Title: Maggie's Last Dance A play Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1996

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - life - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts

"A high school reunion brings together old friends and nemeses to relive the past. Old crushes are revisited along with regrets and hopes. The play jumps between the present-day reunion when people are wiser and more experienced, and the high school hey days when youthful exuberance and naivete ruled."

Title: Maggie's Last Dance in - Love + Relasianships / CCO Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1996

Description:

roy drama - Asian-Canadian - life - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts

"A high school reunion brings together old friends and nemeses to relive the past. Old crushes are revisited along with regrets and hopes. The play jumps between the present-day reunion when people are wiser and more experienced, and the high school hey days when youthful exuberance and naivete ruled." Title: Magpie A play in one act Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

running time: 50 min.

Magpie is a parolee surveillance officer who keeps her eyes on the boy in the basement, Reggie, who's been convicted of sexual assault and murder. Reggie's cute, Magpie's fat, and they both want out. Reggie tries to get Magpie at her own game, food, until he finds himself dying to break bread with a woman who wants revenge.

Title: Maid for a Musket A comedy with music Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2014

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright fourteen characters eight male; six female two acts

"Set in Prescott, ON, during the war of 1812, this play very loosely echoes "Love's Labour's Lost" [Shakespeare]. Fred, Brown and Mac are three soldiers stuck in the wilds of Upper Canada: the only corner of the world that seemingly isn't at war. They decide to swear off whiskey, women and other distractions, and to focus on higher learning. Then the Americans show up: A few of them in skirts." - Publisher

Title: Making of Warriors, The in - Airborne / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy drama - historical - Canadian - Alberta playwright ten characters four male; six female radio play

"In this play, Pollock weaves together the lives and deaths of two activists - for women's suffrage and Native rights - through a mix of storytelling, documentary and drama that crosses centuries." Title: Making of Warriors, The in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991

Description:

roy drama - historical - Alberta playwright - Canadian ten characters four male; six female radio play

"In this play, Pollock weaves together the lives and deaths of two activists - for women's suffrage and Native rights - through a mix of storytelling, documentary and drama that crosses centuries."

Title: Maltese Bodkin, The

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - murder - mystery - historical - Alberta playwright six characters two male; four female two acts

"Times were tough for hard boiled detective Birnam Wood. He never asked to be in London. Especially in 1605. When Wood's Partner is killed, he has to find the killer amongst a cast of suspects that includes Richard III, Falstaff, Iago, Mercutio and a merchant from Venice. The worlds of film noir and Shakespeare collide in this 'who hath done it'."

Title: Man A Fish, A

Author: St. Bernard, Donna-Michelle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female one act (twenty-seven short scenes)

4 settings; "A Man A Fish" is a part of the 54ology, inspired by events in Burundi.

Prosper is a fisherman trying to get by in the face of everyday problems: there's the spectre of the baby his wife desires, the ghost of his dead mistress, his wife's secret admirer, and the overwhelming lure of the village bar. When a slippery eel salesman arrives in town peddling progress to the rural community, Prosper’s list of problems only increases. Faced with an invasive Title: Man Out of Joint in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright fourteen characters eleven male; three female six scenes

Pollock demonstrates the ways in which the political response to the September 11 disaster has taken away the rights and freedoms of Canadians.

Title: Man Out of Joint in - Canada and the Theatre of War - Vol. II / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - terrorism - Alberta playwright fourteen characters eleven male; three female six scenes

Pollock demonstrates the ways in which the political response to the September 11 disaster has taken away the rights and freedoms of Canadians.

Title: Marg Szkaluba (Pissy's Wife) in - Three Really Nasty Plays / CCO Author: Chambers, Ron Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1997

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts

"[This play] follows the travails of [a] farmer's wife escaping an abusive marriage to find new life as a country singer in small town bars." Title: Margin of the Sky, The in - A Teatro Trilogy / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press 2004

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

'In "The Margin of the Sky" an addled Canadian playwright finds himself unable to embrace the basic tenets of American popular culture in order to create a script for his soap star brother-in-law.'

Title: Martini with a Twist 5 plays Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - one-acts - Clem Martini - Alberta playwright

includes: The Life History of the African Elephant Nobody of Consequence The Replacement Spill and Spell The Invention of Music

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Mary Shelley Play, The

Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

2 interior sets; 1 exterior set.

Shelley, Byron and Polidori talk about ghosts. Mary Shelley is entranced by the tales and in her own imagination devises mystery and terror that affects them all. Title: Mary Shelley Play, The

Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

2 interior sets; 1 exterior set.

Shelley, Byron and Polidori talk about ghosts. Mary Shelley is entranced by the tales and in her own imagination devises mystery and terror that affects them all.

Title: Mary's Wedding

Author: Massicotte, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2002

Description:

roy drama - romance - war - Alberta playwright three characters one male; one female (doubling) one act

When Mary and Charlie unexpectedly find one another sheltering in a barn during a thunderstorm, a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and Mary and Charlie must surrender their love and fate to the uncertainties of their tumultuous times. A play with a heart as big as the land that serves as its backdrop, "Mary’s Wedding" is a wonderfully tender, poignant story of innocent first love and the vicissitudes of fate.

Title: Mary's Wedding

Author: Massicotte, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - romance - war - Alberta playwright three characters one male; one female (doubling) one act

When Mary and Charlie unexpectedly find one another sheltering in a barn during a thunderstorm, a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and Mary and Charlie must surrender their love and fate to the uncertainties of their tumultuous times. A play with a heart as big as the land that serves as its backdrop, "Mary’s Wedding" is a wonderfully tender, poignant story of innocent first love and the vicissitudes of fate. Title: Mary's Wedding in - Canada and the Theatre of War: Vol. 1 / CCO Author: Massicotte, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - romance - war - Alberta playwright - Canadian three characters one male; one female (doubling) one act

When Mary and Charlie unexpectedly find one another sheltering in a barn during a thunderstorm, a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and Mary and Charlie must surrender their love and fate to the uncertainties of their tumultuous times. A play with a heart as big as the land that serves as its backdrop, "Mary’s Wedding" is a wonderfully tender, poignant story of innocent first love and the vicissitudes of fate.

Title: Mary's Wedding

Author: Massicotte, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - romance - war - Alberta playwright three characters one male; one female (doubling) one act

When Mary and Charlie unexpectedly find one another sheltering in a barn during a thunderstorm, a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and Mary and Charlie must surrender their love and fate to the uncertainties of their tumultuous times. A play with a heart as big as the land that serves as its backdrop, "Mary’s Wedding" is a wonderfully tender, poignant story of innocent first love and the vicissitudes of fate.

Title: Marzooq, the Lucky One in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Haroun, Mark Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy Canadian - children - folk tale - Alberta playwright eight characters one male; three female (doubling) one act

running time: 15 min.; setting: Egypt; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.

A lighthearted folk tale told to the playwright by his Egyptian father. Title: Maximilian Beetle

Author: Zacharko, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

Description:

roy children - Canadian - fantasy - Alberta playwright fifteen characters; four male; seven female; four boys one act (full length)

Max Beetle is in love with Amber the butterfly. His chatty and charming entourage includes a wasp, a bee, a cockroach, and even a few naive humans.

Title: Maximilian Beetle

Author: Zacharko, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

Description:

roy children - Canadian - fantasy - Alberta playwright fifteen characters; four male; seven female; four boys one act (full length)

Max Beetle is in love with Amber the butterfly. His chatty and charming entourage includes a wasp, a bee, a cockroach, and even a few naive humans.

Title: McDonald's and Kid Culture Playwriting Contest Winning Entries First Kid Culture Playwriting Contest Author: Publisher: Miscellaneous 1982

Description:

nonroy - children - collection - Canadian - Alberta playwright

includes: Wilf Dodo/Dodo Wilf Robbery - Sherry Anne Siemens The Magic Raven - Suzanne Harris The Great Hamburger Caper - Rowland Johnson

Please see individual titles for play description. Title: Meeting, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 110, Spring 2002 / PER Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male one act

'An encounter between a writer and his editor.'

Title: Memoir in - Heroines: Three Plays / CCO Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - women - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female one act - two parts

Sarah Bernhardt's seventy-seventh and last summer.

Title: Memoir A play about Sarah Bernhardt's last summer Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Avon Books 1978

Description:

roy Canadian drama - women - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts

Sarah Bernhardt's seventy-seventh and last summer. Title: Memoir A play in two acts Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Avon Books 1978

Description:

roy Canadian drama - women - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts

Sarah Bernhardt's seventy-seventh and last summer.

Title: Merchants of Dazu, The in - Playhouse: Six Fantasy Plays for Children / CHC Author: DeFelice, James Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1989

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright - children four characters two male; two female one act

intended audience ages 6 and up.

Two crafty merchants set out from old Shanghai and exploit peasant traders along the way. Eventually, they realise that they've outsmarted themselves, and must rely on the peasants to save them.

Title: Merchants of Dazu, The

Author: DeFelice, James Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1985

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright - children four characters two male; two female one act

intended audience ages 6 and up.

Two crafty merchants set out from old Shanghai and exploit peasant traders along the way. Eventually, they realise that they've outsmarted themselves, and must rely on the peasants to save them. Title: Metastasis Chain of ruin Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: International Readers' Theatre 1996

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright twenty-four characters; cellist sixteen male; eight female (doubling possible) forty-five scenes

Named for the pathological spread of live rot through a system METASTASIS sets 25 characters in motion, rippling out from a random drive by shooting, to conjure a world of missed connections and crossed wires which tells the audience to look to malignancy and the way it grows fruitful and multiplies to see how we are bound together.

Title: Metastasis in - Metastasis and other plays / CCO Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: NeWest Press 2009

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright twenty-four characters; cellist sixteen male; eight female (doubling possible) forty-five scenes

Named for the pathological spread of live rot through a system METASTASIS sets 25 characters in motion, rippling out from a random drive by shooting, to conjure a world of missed connections and crossed wires which tells the audience to look to malignancy and the way it grows fruitful and multiplies to see how we are bound together.

Title: Metastasis and Other Plays

Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: NeWest Press 2009

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Gordon Pengilly - Alberta playwright

contains: Seeing in the Dark Metastasis Drumheller or Dangerous Times

Please see separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Metastasis and Other Plays

Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: NeWest Press 2009

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Gordon Pengilly - Alberta playwright

contains: Seeing in the Dark Metastasis Drumheller or Dangerous Times

Please see separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Midlife

Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Broadview Drama 2002

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - aging - domestic relations - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts

"The landscape of middle-aged bravado and angst that Eugene Stickland populates here with Calgary oilmen and their romantic difficulties ."

Title: Midlife

Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Broadview Drama 2002

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - aging - domestic relations - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts

"The landscape of middle-aged bravado and angst that Eugene Stickland populates here with Calgary oilmen and their romantic difficulties." Title: Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays

Author: Ouchi, Mieko Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy - collection - Mieko Ouchi - Canadian - Alberta playwright

includes: The Blue Light The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye)

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays

Author: Ouchi, Mieko Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy - collection - Mieko Ouchi - Canadian - Alberta playwright

includes: The Blue Light The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye)

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Mighty Carlins, The

Author: Doyle, Collin Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2002

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - family relations all male cast; three characters three male two acts

On the anniversary of his wife's death, Leo Carlin and his two adult sons come together for their traditional night of drinking until they can't stand, reminiscing until they can't remember, and accusing each other until they are bonded together as a family once again. Featuring a get-rich-quick-internet-porn business and a daring plan to steal a gold statue of Jesus. Title: Minor Keys, The A romantic comedy Author: Belke, David Publisher: NeWest Press 2000

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright ten characters four male; three female (doubling) two acts

"In a half-forgotten jazz club, the lives and dreams of its inhabitants intersect, intertwine and collide. A wistful jazz-inspired comedy about minor key people in a minor key world, and how even the smallest of lives can find their hearts' desire."

Title: Minor Keys, The A romantic comedy Author: Belke, David Publisher: NeWest Press 2000

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright ten characters four male; three female (doubling) two acts

"In a half-forgotten jazz club, the lives and dreams of its inhabitants intersect, intertwine and collide. A wistful jazz-inspired comedy about minor key people in a minor key world, and how even the smallest of lives can find their hearts' desire."

Title: Mirage in - New Canadian Drama 2 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1981

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Saskatchewan - Alberta playwright - prairies nineteen characters six male; two female (doubling) two acts

'History of Saskatchewan farming family and their Indian neighbors from 1910 to the present.' Title: Mirage in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - Saskatchewan nineteen characters six male; two female (doubling) two acts

'History of Saskatchewan farming family and their Indian neighbors from 1910 to the present.'

Title: Mistaken Identity A Comedy in two acts Author: Penman, Steve Publisher: Steve Penman 2006

Description:

roy comedy - mystery - Alberta playwright thirteen characters six male; seven female two acts

Two detectives arrive at an old castle in a snow storm to help a Countess discover who has been threatening her life. An avalanche cuts them off, someone ends up dead and the detectives must discover the murderer before other members of the household die. It sounds a bit like Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie, but the lead detective is Sherlock Jones, it is 2006, the castle is in Southern Alberta, the Countess isn't really a Countess and most of her household aren't who they seem to be. Of course, there is an avalanche, someone does die and the detectives do investigate,

Title: Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl in - Canadian Mosaic II / CCO Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1996

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

"A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called Wrath of the Yellow Claw."

Winner of the 1998/99 Elizabeth Stirling Haynes Award for Best New Work. Title: Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl

Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

"A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called Wrath of the Yellow Claw."

Winner of the 1998/99 Elizabeth Sterling Hayes Award for Best New Work.

Title: Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

"A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called Wrath of the Yellow Claw."

Winner of the 1998/99 Elizabeth Stirling Haynes Award for Best New Work.

Title: Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl

Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

Winner of the 1998/99 Elizabeth Stirling Haynes Award for Best New Work.

"A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called Wrath of the Yellow Claw." Title: Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl in - Ethnicities: Plays from the New West / CCO Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

"A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called Wrath of the Yellow Claw."

Winner of the 1998/99 Elizabeth Stirling Haynes Award for Best New Work.

Title: Monkey Business in - Four by Four by Four / CCO Author: Zylstra, Nicole Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - romance - Canadian - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female one act

In Zylstra’s play, paleoanthropologist Myriam and her young research assistant Horace find themselves alone in the rainforest, catching monkeys and clashing over their views on evolution, their philosophies of life and their seemingly unbridgeable age gap.

Title: Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, The

Author: Wiebe, Armin Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

"A preacher should know that in the Bible a man would wear a dress." A comic 'folk play' with a classical music base, THE MOONLIGHT SONOTA OF BEETHOVEN BLATZ follows a farm wife, a carpenter, a midwife, and a musician as they struggle to find fulfillment of their seemingly impossible wantings, drawing on the means at hand on a homestead removed from the stifling customs of the village. Title: More Munsch

Author: Munsch, Robert McCaw, Kim Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1991

Description:

roy children - comedy - Alberta playwright large cast one male or female(voice); one boy; three girls (doubling) one act

'Stories of Robert Munsch adapted for the stage by Kim McCaw.'

Title: Mors Draculae

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright eight characters six male; two female two acts

2 interior sets; also known as "The Death of Dracula".

Lucy and Count Dracula are together again in a gloomy castle in Suffolk. Van Helsing believes he knows what's wrong with Lucy; so does the charming but mysterious count.

Title: Mounting Sex in the Afternoon Zone

Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1995

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - relationships - Alberta playwright six characters flexible casting two acts

This play is a farce within a sitcom. Both genres being comedy, the bulimia and adultery issues should in no way be attempted to be played dramatically. . .' Title: Mounting Sex in the Afternoon Zone

Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - relationships - bulimia - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female (may be varied) two acts

In this hilarious comedy a theatre company tries putting on a new play. The playwright changes the genre of the play four times before opening night. The play starts out as a British farce, then a Canadian comedy, then a musical Canadian comedy then finishes a sci-fi musical. The actor in the play is caught between his wife who is playing his mistress and visa versa.

Title: Mouse in - The FieldMouse Collection / CHC Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy children - fear - Alberta playwright eight characters two male; two female (doubling) one act

"Are you ever afraid? Because I am. Of everything really. Of the light snapping on in the morning. Of what's in the cage, and what's outside the cage. Of the things I do know, and the things I don't. Everything. And I know mice aren't known for being brave, but, it can't be right to feel afraid all the time, can it? Not even for a mouse." Josh, the youngest mouse in an immense family of laboratory mice is paralysed by fear. His desire to overcome these fears lead him and his best friend Bowey into an adventure that extends as far as the furthest reaches of the dreaded mazes -

Title: Moving Along in - Public Speaking and Other Plays / CCO Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: NeWest Press 2014

Description:

roy solo performance - comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male (doubling) one act

Craddock ricochets wildly through the story of his own life — through childhood traumas, adolescent tragedies, adult triumphs, and frequent philosophical tangents. Title: Moving Day in - Three Quest Plays for Children / CHC Author: James, JoAnne Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy Canadian - children - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

"Best friends are desolate because two best friends are separated by one family's move from Calgary to Vancouver. How will the two friends survive this separation?"

Title: Moving Pictures in - Sharon Pollock: Three Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy biography - Nell Shipman - Alberta playwright nine characters three male; two female (doubling) one act

'This play is a theatrical tracing of the life of Nell Shipman, who as an actress sang, danced and hummed her way across North America in the early 1900's... "Moving Pictures" explores the meaning of story-telling in our lives, and the artists addiction to creation whatever the cost.'

Title: Moving Pictures in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy biography - Nell Shipman - Alberta playwright nine characters three male; two female (doubling) one act

'This play is a theatrical tracing of the life of Nell Shipman, who as an actress sang, danced and hummed her way across North America in the early 1900's... "Moving Pictures" explores the meaning of story-telling in our lives, and the artists addiction to creation whatever the cost.' Title: Mr. Fix It in - Palliser Suite / CCO Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Frontenac House 2014

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - marriage two characters one male; one female one act

part 1 of a trilogy of plays called "Palliser Suite"; can be produced as a one act or in conjunction with the other two, "Second Chance, First Love" and "Funeral Fore!".

Mel awakes in his hotel room to find out he isn’t divorced to his ex-wife after all. He has made such a mess of his marriage. Can he fix it now that he has been given a second chance?

Title: Mrs. Ferguson's Bed in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Melnyk, Sherryl Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - seniors - marriage - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

At 73 years old, Violet is finally ready to speak up for herself and say goodbye to her husband.

Title: Ms. Canadian Reality in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2016) / PER Author: Bowen, Leah Simone Publisher: Miscellaneous 2016

Description:

roy dark comedy - women - satire - social issues - Alberta playwright six characters one male; five female one act

Ms. Canadian Reality - the only pageant that the contestants win simply by staying alive. Watch as Ms. Single Mother, Ms. Temporary Foreign Worker, Ms. First Nations, Ms. Invisible, and Ms. Young and Pretty play to win Ms. Canadian Reality. Title: Mumberley Inheritance, The

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1971

Description:

roy melodrama - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female two acts

1 interior set.

A good-time melodrama, subtitled "His Substance Frittered". Pale Daphne is nursing her father and trying to get Rodney Stoutheart to the altar, meanwhile awaiting the return of her brother Jack from "the Canada's ". Enter Marmaduke Mayhem, archvillain.

Title: Mumberley Inheritance, The

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy melodrama - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female two acts

1 interior set.

A good-time melodrama, subtitled "His Substance Frittered". Pale Daphne is nursing her father and trying to get Rodney Stoutheart to the altar, meanwhile awaiting the return of her brother Jack from "the Canada's". Enter Marmaduke Mayhem, archvillain.

Title: Mumberley Inheritance, The

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy melodrama - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female two acts

1 interior set.

A good-time melodrama, subtitled "His Substance Frittered". Pale Daphne is nursing her father and trying to get Rodney Stoutheart to the altar, meanwhile awaiting the return of her brother Jack from "the Canada's". Enter Marmaduke Mayhem, archvillain. Title: Mumberley Inheritance, The

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Samuel French 1972

Description:

roy melodrama - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female two acts

1 interior set.

A good-time melodrama, subtitled "His Substance Frittered". Pale Daphne is nursing her father and trying to get Rodney Stoutheart to the altar, meanwhile awaiting the return of her brother Jack from "the Canada's". Enter Marmaduke Mayhem, archvillain.

Title: Mutants in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: AU Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - high school - teenagers - Alberta playwright nine characters seven male; two female (to be performed by teenagers) two acts

"Mutants" captures six young 'delinquents' in a condemned office building in the midst of kidnapping this group home councillor, Mr. Goldwyn, in order to attract media attention to their mistreatment and to their general lot in life. But their plans backfire when they also kidnap Jett's straight-and-narrow friend Christine (daughter of the province's minister of culture), Judy reveals reveals to Jim that she's pregnant with his baby ("Mutant children. How scary," observes Jett), and Jett is shot dead during an altercation with Plato.

Title: My Family and Other Endangered Species

Author: Close, Ellen Griffiths, Braden Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016

Description:

roy Canadian - Alberta playwright - children - comedy - family - environment ten characters one male; one female (doubling) two acts

adapted from the novel "Amphibian" by Carla Gunn.

Nine-year-old Phineas interprets the world through his encyclopedic knowledge of animals, but some human behaviour is just too puzzling. Take for example his mom, who insists he learn to fall asleep on his own, even though all young mammals sleep with their mothers; or his dad, who recently picked up and left the family, a behaviour quite unlike other mate-for-life animals. And Title: My Morocco

Author: Cameron, Ken Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2007

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male one act (monologue)

Ken was in Morocco for a week when he called home to let his parents know he was safe. They were at the funeral home. His sister had died unexpectedly. The thing is . . . Ken and his estranged sister had not spoken in two years.

Title: My Morocco in - Harvest and Other Plays / CCO Author: Cameron, Ken Publisher: NeWest Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - family relations - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male one act

Ken was in Morocco for a week when he called home to let his parents know he was safe. They were at the funeral home. His sister had died unexpectedly. The thing is . . . Ken and his estranged sister had not spoken in two years.

Title: My One and Only in - Harvest and Other Plays / CCO Author: Cameron, Ken Publisher: NeWest Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters two male; two female (doubling) one act

running time: 90 minutes.

Marilyn Monroe comes to Banff in 1953 to shoot a movie and has an affair with Scout, a fifteen-year-old boy; meanwhile in 1962, Scout has been stopped by the side of the road and is clearly hiding something. Fall in love with the Rockies and Marilyn Monroe! Title: Myth of Summer, The

Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005

Description:

roy comedy - relationships - Alberta playwright eight characters three male; five female two acts

In the mood for the ultimate summer vacation? Warm sun, beautiful landscapes, carefree days and balmy nights? In this touching comedy people look for love and fulfillment in the promise of summer only to find that the journey is turbulent. But paradise is closer than they think.

Title: Myth of Summer, The in - Conni Massing: Two Plays / CCO Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright eight characters two male; six female two acts

A lightning strike and the inspirational story of Joan of Arc trigger a series of magical occurrences for sixteen-year-old Jessica and for everyone else around her caught up in the fleeting euphoria of this most maddening season of the year. German massage therapist, Werner, and frantic puppeteer, Melanie, fall in love over dreams of Canadian wilderness and French erudition, both of which turn out to be empty promises. Party-planning duo Dacia and Kevin orchestrate important events for other people while deluding themselves about the lack of meaning in their own lives.

Title: Naked at School Three plays for teens Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: NeWest Press 2001

Description:

roy - young adult - collection - Alberta playwright

includes: The Day Billy Lived Wrecked Do It Right

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Naked at School Three plays for teens Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: NeWest Press 2001

Description:

roy - young adult - collection - Alberta playwright

includes: The Day Billy Lived Wrecked Do It Right

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Neck-Breaking Car-Hop

Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act

Annette Styx loves trees more than she loved her husband Dennis and probably more than she loves her kids Sharon and Doug. Her family's grim routine is irrevocably changed by the visit of an A&W employee with a penchant for manslaughter.

Title: Neck-Breaking Car-Hop

Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act

Annette Styx loves trees more than she loved her husband Dennis and probably more than she loves her kids Sharon and Doug. Her family's grim routine is irrevocably changed by the visit of an A&W employee with a penchant for manslaughter. Title: New Canadian Drama 3 Albertan Dramatists Author: Publisher: Borealis Press 1984

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - Alberta playwright

includes: Down For the Weekend - Frank Moher Checkin' Out - Kelly-Jean Rebar Swipe - Gordon Pengilly

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: New Canadian Drama 3 Albertan Dramatists Author: Publisher: Borealis Press 1984

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - Alberta playwright

includes: Down For the Weekend - Frank Moher Checkin' Out - Kelly-Jean Rebar Swipe - Gordon Pengilly

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: New World in - Farther West / New World - CCO Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Coach House Press 1985

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts

"Three siblings, all transplanted Brits, are reunited at the west coast cottage of the eldest brother. Frayed nerves and waspish humour degenerate into nastiness as an array of lovers and hangers-on contribute to the clash between the 'Old' world and the 'New'." Title: New World Order, The

Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talent Group 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright six characters five male; one female two acts

A dinner conversation between Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae (a Canadian doctor who wrote In Flanders Fields), Salvador Allende (former president of Chile), Jan Masaryk (former foreign minister of Czechoslovakia), Mohammed Mossadegh (former president of Iran), and Jacobo Arbenz (former president of Guatemala). The dialogue works at two levels - for theatregoers out to enjoy themselves and for gameplayers and students of history. The characters, very sophisticated in life and with the advantage of being dead, are extraordinarily knowledgeable and don't bother

Title: Next Year's Man of Steel

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Samuel French 2012

Description:

roy drama - collaboration - heroes - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female two acts

August 1940, New York. Struggling and opportunistic writer Everett Gardner is given the chance to make a mark in the still infant comic book industry. All he has to do is create a hero. But creating a real hero turns out to be much more difficult than he expects. And while badgered by a desperate publisher and partnered with an uncooperative artist, the task might prove to be impossible. Especially with distraction of the artist's intriguing young wife. But heroes can arise in the most unexpected places... A full length play about creativity, collaboration and every day

Title: Nobody of Consequence in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female one act

A severed head in a suitcase life support system is given a second chance at life.

Winner! Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama, 1992. Title: North of America

Author: Brown, Kenneth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts

"The time is the near future. Canada as a nation has ceased to exist, and the fundamentalist right is running the new America. A play about love, the faces of facism, and the importance of remembering who we are."

Title: Oculist's Holiday, The in - Witness to a Conga and Other Plays / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press

Description:

roy comedy - romance - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act

In a pleasant alpine setting, a diverse group of travelers are linked by a shared experience which will haunt them forever after. Set in Switzerland in the early 1930’s, The Oculist’s Holiday is a sort of evocation of the style of F. S. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories of North Americans abroad in Europe. The story revolves around a widowed Canadian teacher on holiday in Lausanne, whose encounter with an emotionally volatile tourist couple has a catastrophic effect on her burgeoning romance with an American optometrist.

Title: Odd Fish

Author: Boyd, Pamela Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1994

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female two acts

'Czech woman living comfortably in Canada with her husband and two children forced to confront past when old lover pays unexpected visit.'

Winner of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Premiere Production Award. Title: Odd Jobs

Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1986

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts

1 set.

Tim has been laid off from his factory job and finds contentment in the employ of a retired professor. When Tim's wife is offered a job in another city, the hopes and needs of the three come into conflict.

Title: Odd Jobs

Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1986

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts

1 set.

Tim has been laid off from his factory job and finds contentment in the employ of a retired professor. When Tim's wife is offered a job in another city, the hopes and needs of the three come into conflict.

Title: Odd Jobs

Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: International Readers' Theatre 1995

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts

1 set.

Tim has been laid off from his factory job and finds contentment in the employ of a retired professor. When Tim's wife is offered a job in another city, the hopes and needs of the three come into conflict. Title: Of Human Bondage

Author: Thiessen, Vern Maugham, W. Somerset Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016

Description:

roy Canadian - Alberta playwright - drama- adaptation - love multiple characters flexible casting four acts

based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham; ensemble piece; originally performed with 11 actors; can be performed with as many or as few actors as the director sees fit; act one and two together should run approx. 70 min. and act three and four together should run approx. 60 min.

When Philip meets Mildred, a disarming tea-shop waitress, he finds his yearning for art and experience consumed by his intense attraction to her. Mildred, for all her teasing, isn’t all that

Title: One Man's House in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Christmas - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act

1 set.

'Polish family in Canada cannot understand father's involvement in labour politics, which threatens his job.'

Title: One Tiger to a Hill in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 1981

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - prisoner - Alberta playwright ten characters eight male; two female two acts

"A compelling and compassionate examination of the complexities confronting both warden and inmate." Title: One Tiger to a Hill in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works: Volume One / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - prisoner - Alberta playwright ten characters eight male; two female two acts

"A compelling and compassionate examination of the complexities confronting both warden and inmate."

Title: One Tiger to a Hill in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - prisoner - Alberta playwright ten characters eight male; two female two acts

"A compelling and compassionate examination of the complexities confronting both warden and inmate."

Title: Ooga-Booga in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy Canadian - children - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

running time: 15 min.; setting: an Alberta farmhouse; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.

Inspired by childhood memories of coyotes howling just outside the playwright's bedroom window on the Alberta farm where she spent the first five years of her life. Title: Ooomerahgi Oh! in - Ooomerahgi Oh! and A Very Small Rebellion / CHC Author: Truss, Jan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy children - Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright six characters; three male; three female one act

When a mysterious stranger visits a house on the prairie, the youngest child sees her family transported to another world.

Title: Ooomerahgi Oh! and A Very Small Rebellion

Author: Truss, Jan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy - children - Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright

includes: Ooomerahgi Oh! A Very Small Rebellion

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion, The

Author: Massicotte, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - biography - T.E. Lawrence - Robert Graves - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female one act

Two heroes return home from the First World War. Lawrence of Arabia is a leader without an army. Robert Graves is a poet who can’t forget. Suffering the aftermath of the war and foreseeing the dawning of new ones, the Oxford Roof Climbers, the Benevolent Order of, lay siege to a sleepy university town. A stand against stands, a dare to end all daring, a doing that protests doings; the two haunted men—armed with a talent for practical jokes—grasp at love and dare to imagine a new world. The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion, despite its harmless beginnings, brings the Arab Title: Palliser Suite

Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Frontenac House 2014

Description:

roy - Canadian - Alberta playwright - one-acts - Caroline Russell-King

A collection of 3 plays that may be performed as a full length play in 3 acts.

includes: Mr. Fix It Second Chance, First Love Funeral Fore!

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Palliser Suite

Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Frontenac House 2014

Description:

roy - Canadian - Alberta playwright - one-acts - Caroline Russell-King

A collection of 3 plays that may be performed as a full length play in 3 acts.

includes: Mr. Fix It Second Chance, First Love Funeral Fore!

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Paradise Garden

Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Talonbooks 2001

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright six characters two male; four female three acts

In the gold-rush era of the 1850's, the McKinnons settled on an island off the west coast of Canada, where the first thing they did was to turn this 'wilderness' into an English country garden complete with vegetables, flowers, fruit trees, and an elegant gazebo. After six generations, times and circumstances have changed, the family estate has been subdivided, the flowers have gone wild, the pear tree has rotted and the heritage house has been carved up into a duplex, the property now divided in two by an ugly hedge. The McKinnons now live in one side of the Title: Pasque Flower in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 2 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: CTR Publications 1979

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - farming - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

"Besides its own considerable literary and dramatic merits, 'Pasque Flower' is of interest for its close thematic proximity to Gwen Pharis Ringwood's best known works, 'Still Stands the House' and 'Dark Harvest'. For the three plays were not only written and produced in chronological order; their depiction of the relationship between a struggling wheat farmer and his younger wife also progresses and develops from play to play. All three dramas are placed in a prairie depression setting."

Title: Pasque Flower in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - farming - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

'Set in Alberta farmhouse. Small gesture from woman's husband pulls her out of depression and anger.'

Title: Patches in - A Blizzard Leaves No Footprints and Other Plays / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy children - Canadian - fantasy - Alberta playwright six characters flexible casting (adults) one act

intended audience ages 4 to 9.

A play about story-telling. Title: Pause

Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright four characters; two voices three male; one female one act

1 exterior set.

Crootoo and Kurdell are delivering a carpet to a mountain top in Banff National Park. The customer, apparently, is God, and the end of the world is near.

Winner, Alberta Culture Playwriting Competition.

Title: Perambulance in - Perambulance and Pipe Dream / CCO Author: Botting, Gary Publisher: Harden House 1972

Description:

roy black theatre - comedy - Alberta playwright - Canadian seven characters four male; three female one act

exterior set.

"Black comedy which features 2 babies in a carriage and a grocer who stocks his shelves with garbage."

Title: Perambulance and Pipe Dream

Author: Botting, Gary Publisher: Harden House 1972

Description:

Roy - Canadian - collection - black comedy - Gary Botting - Alberta playwright

includes: Perambulance Pipe Dream

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Perdu

Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2007

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female one act

running time: 30 min.

Pea is dying of malaise as a clerk in the dog food aisle of Supersave until she is offered the gift of life, a dog named Perdu, from an old man named Konstanty.

Title: Photographic Moment, The

Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975

Description:

not available for production drama - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female three acts

1 interior set.

A deceptively simple play that focuses on family, people and the human comedy.

Title: Photographic Moment, The

Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975

Description:

not available for production drama - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female three acts

1 interior set.

A deceptively simple play that focuses on family, people and the human comedy. "It is convincing in its psychology and in its narrative structure, and its concerns are important and valid... The play is a valuable addition to Prairie dramatic literature." Title: Pickle in - The Suicide Meet / CCO Author: Junor-Moore, Sheila Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1977

Description:

roy Alberta playwright - Canadian three characters two female; one male one act

Description not available.

Title: Pipe Dream in - Perambulance and Pipe Dream / CCO Author: Botting, Gary Publisher: Harden House 1972

Description:

roy tragedy - drama - Canadian - black comedy - Alberta playwright all male cast; seven characters seven male one act

interior set.

"A timid clerk is victimized in a public washroom, a microcosm of the real world."

Title: Pith! in - A Teatro Trilogy / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press 2004

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

'1931. An epic tale of travel and adventure told with the most economical means. An itinerant sailor leads a grieving society widow and her stoic housekeeper on an exhilarating and treacherous journey into the heart of the South American jungle, without ever taking them out of the living room. With only four chairs and a phonograph, Jack Vail propels Virginia Tilford and Nancy Kimble from Providence, Rhode Island to New Orleans, Panama, and Ecuador, where hilarious encounters with explorers, shysters, gigolos, natives, and all manner of tropical wildlife Title: Porn Star in - Public Speaking and Other Plays / CCO Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: NeWest Press 2014

Description:

roy solo performance - comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; eight characters one male (doubling) one act

A mousy small-town librarian is titillated to learn that she has unwittingly become an internet sensation thanks to an X-rated viral video starring her and her ex-boyfriend (much to the horror of her mother, a family-values right-wing politician).

Title: Prairie Dragons in - Playhouse: Six Fantasy Plays for Children / CHC Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1989

Description:

roy children - fantasy - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female or; four female one act

'Two teenaged heroines face prejudice that denies them equal opportunities to succeed. Their story is told by a dragon - a prairie dragon, brought by Chinese immigrants, that can bring good fortune to those who are true to themselves and their vision.'

Title: Prairie Dragons in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy children - fantasy - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female or four female one act

Two teenaged heroines face prejudice that denies them equal opportunities to succeed. Their story is told by a dragon - a prairie dragon, brought by Chinese immigrants, that can bring good fortune to those who are true to themselves and their vision. Title: Prairie Report

Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female two acts

"A shrewd, funny attack on the contemporary western Canadian press and a wistful valentine to an old-time, grassroots style of journalism"

Title: Prairie Report

Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988

Description:

roy comedy - satire - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female two acts

1 interior set.

In the newsroom of an Alberta magazine, four young editors, must re-evaluate their journalistic integrity when the magazine becomes targeted for takeover by even more right-wing business interests from the East.

Title: Pretty Blue in - Three Really Nasty Plays / CCO Author: Chambers, Ron Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1997

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts

"In [this play], which won the Alberta Culture Playwriting Award, a man who has little and aspires to nothing becomes a catalyst in the lives of a lawyer and professor, forcing them to reconsider their values." Title: Prisoner of Zenda, The

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983

Description:

roy romantic comedy - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts

2 interior sets.

A long-lost cousin, the physical double to the rightful heir to the throne of Ruritania, stands in for the drugged Prince to prevent the conniving step-brother from seizing power. A swashbuckling adventure of mistaken identity and high romance.

Title: Prom Night of the Living Dead in - The Wolf Plays / CCO Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1993

Description:

roy musical comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright large mixed cast; extras flexible casting one act

'Zombies attend high school prom.'

Title: Prometheus Rebound A dramatic poem Author: Botting, Gary Publisher: Harden House 1972

Description:

roy poetic drama - Alberta playwright nine characters eight male; one female; (off-stage voice) two acts

1 exterior set.

Prometheus whispers to man the secrets of atomic energy and is again bound to a rock as punishment. Title: Proper Perspective, The in - Who's Looking After the Atlantic? & The Proper Perspective / CCO Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female one act

"An hysterically delightful play within a play, which poses the question: 'What is the nature of reality?'"

Winner, Ottawa Little Theatre Playwriting Competition

Title: Public Speaking in - Public Speaking and Other Plays / CCO Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: NeWest Press 2014

Description:

roy solo performance - comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; six characters one male (doubling) one act

An amoral lifestyle guru finds his message of guilt-free self-interest tested when his sex-addicted daughter is kidnapped by a pair of dangerous thugs.

Title: Public Speaking and Other Plays

Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: NeWest Press 2014

Description:

roy - collection - solo performances - Canadian - Alberta playwright - Chris Craddock

includes: Public Speaking Porn Star Moving Along

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Queen Lear A play Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: B house 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - biography - Joyce Doolittle - Alberta playwright all female cast; two characters; cellist two female sixteen scenes

In a tribute to Ms. Doolittle [the founder of Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary] with strong biographical roots, Eugene Stickland tells the story of an aging actress cast in an all female production called Queen Lear who has employed a young girl to help her memorize her lines. Struggling against fear and her aging mind, the actress questions whether or not she is too old to remember her complicated lines, to play the part well or to bring anything valuable to the production. The young girl, having just lost her mother, struggles to understand and relate to the

Title: Rainmaker, The

Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright fourteen characters eight male; six female one act

In 1921, the town of Medicine Hat, Alberta, hired a professional rainmaker named Charles Hatfield. This dramatic retelling of the actual events deals with the despair, hope and cynicism with which the town's inhabitants gamble on Hatfield to save their crops from a four year drought.

Title: Rainmaker, The in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 3 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: CTR Publications 1980

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - Alberta twenty characters; extras thirteen male; eight female one act

Exterior representative set (street); 20's costume.

"The play is a portrait of Medicine Hat during a drought. Its focal point is the visit of a rainmaker from California." Title: Rainmaker, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - Alberta twenty characters; extras eleven male; four female; four boys; one girl one act

1 setting; music.

'Town hires professional rainmaker to end drought and save crops.'

Title: Rainstone, The in - A Blizzard Leaves No Footprints and Other Plays / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy children - folklore - drama - Japan - Alberta playwright six characters one male; one female; one boy; three male or female one act

intended audience ages 4 to 9.

A Japanese folk tale about an old woman who finds a child near the river, and how the foundling later saves his village from a drought.

Title: Raven and the Writing Desk, The A quizzical romantic comedy Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - romance - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

A stand alone play that continues the tale of Steven Tudor begun in "The Red King's Dream" and "Between Yourself and Me"; running time: 120 min.

Steven and Amy are in love. And so they've decided to move in together. But can true love survive the crucible of co-habitation? Especially when an intrusive ex-boyfriend enters the picture followed closely by Steven's domineering mother. It's a romantic comedy of accommodation and Title: Ready Steady Go

Author: Jones, Sandra Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975

Description:

roy children - adventure - Alberta playwright - Canadian twelve characters six male; six female one act

The attic adventures of a group of dolls menaced by three nasty pack rats. Ready Steady, an earnest young Mountie doll, tries to stop them...but in the end, it is the combined forces of all the dolls which save their home. After a cup-and-saucer barrage, good triumphs, the rats are vanquished, and Ready Steady, the hero of the day, wins the love of the beautiful Miss Mumbles.

Title: Ready Steady Go

Author: Jones, Sandra Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975

Description:

roy children - adventure - Alberta playwright - Canadian twelve characters six male; six female one act

The attic adventures of a group of dolls menaced by three nasty pack rats. Ready Steady, an earnest young Mountie doll, tries to stop them...but in the end, it is the combined forces of all the dolls which save their home. After a cup-and-saucer barrage, good triumphs, the rats are vanquished, and Ready Steady, the hero of the day, wins the love of the beautiful Miss Mumbles.

Title: Reckoning

Author: Beagan, Tara Moro, Andy Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2016

Description:

roy drama - Canada - native peoples - Alberta playwright four characters; voices two male; two female one act (three parts)

'Reckoning' is an ode to the irreconcilable. A triptych in movement, video and text, 'Reckoning' is an incendiary theatrical presentation of three separate experiences with Indian Residential Schools, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the fallout that has already reverberated across the country. Title: Red Flag at Evening in - In Character / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Nelson Canada 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

1 set.

'Spinster receives unusual response when she asks her beau of fourteen years his intentions.'

Title: Red Flag At Evening in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - sketches - skits - Alberta playwright - Canadian three characters one male; two female one act

1 set.

'Spinster receives unusual response when she asks her beau of fourteen years his intentions.'

Title: Red King's Dream - The Christmas Edition, The A story of love and logic through the looking glass Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001

Description:

roy Canadian - Christmas - comedy - Alberta playwright - romance four characters one male; three female two acts

Romantic comedy of loneliness, logic and unexpected love adapted for the holiday season. Title: Red King's Dream, The

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - bachelorhood - relationships - Alberta playwright four characters one male; three female two acts

prequel to "Between Yourself and Me" and "The Raven and the Writing Desk".

"Stephen Tudor's world is solitary, logical and precise. And that's good. Until a new neighbor moves down the hall. Now Stephen is feeling things he's never felt before. What happens when a man who thinks too much falls in love? A little story of love and logic through the looking glass."

Title: Red King's Dream, The in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - bachelorhood - relationships - Alberta playwright four characters one male; three female two acts

prequel to "Between Yourself and Me" and "The Raven and the Writing Desk".

"Stephen Tudor's world is solitary, logical and precise. And that's good. Until a new neighbor moves down the hall. Now Stephen is feeling things he's never felt before. What happens when a man who thinks too much falls in love? A little story of love and logic through the looking glass."

Title: Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye), The in - Mieko Ouchi : Two Plays / CCO Author: Ouchi, Mieko Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy Canadian - love story - monologues - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female five movements

'This bittersweet love story features enchanting music, a mysterious countess, Antonio Vivaldi, and a violin. "The Red Priest" is a poignant variation on the themes of love and freedom by one of Alberta's most exceptional young artists.' Title: Red Priest, The (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye) Author: Ouchi, Mieko Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy Canadian - love story - monologues - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two parts

'This bittersweet love story features enchanting music, a mysterious countess, Antonio Vivaldi, and a violin. "The Red Priest" is a poignant variation on the themes of love and freedom by one of Alberta's most exceptional young artists.'

Title: Red Priest, The (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye) Author: Ouchi, Mieko Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy Canadian - love story - monologues - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two parts

'This bittersweet love story features enchanting music, a mysterious countess, Antonio Vivaldi, and a violin. "The Red Priest" is a poignant variation on the themes of love and freedom by one of Alberta's most exceptional young artists.'

Title: Reluctant Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes, The

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - murder - mystery - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female (doubling) two acts

"Two years after he killed off Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to investigate the haunting of an old actor's country manor. Doyle is determined to prove the ghost a reality, but is he himself haunted by the super rational Sherlock Holmes who refuses to give up his literary life. When the maid is found dead, these two personalities must uncover the truth." Title: Remembrance of Miracles, A in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright nine characters five male; four female one act

1 set.

'Battle in small town to ban certain literature from Secondary English classes makes teacher involved question her own reasons for introducing controversial items.'

Title: Remittance Man, The

Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - historical - immigrants - television play - Alberta playwright seventeen characters; extras thirteen male; four female one act

A train carrying European immigrants slowly comes to a full stop at Strathcona Station, the end of steel. It is the mid 1890's. Charles Algernon Carrington, travelling with his valet, Freddy Dubbins, is jerked to a halt. Carrington, dressed in a tweed cape and small top hat, looks every bit the English aristocrat he is. Dubbins' bowler hat labels him lower class: he is a servant "above stairs". Carrington and Dubbins sit on opposite seats of an otherwise empty compartment. Both were dozing and are suddenly jolted awake by the train coming to rest...

Title: Replacement, The in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

A quiet shut-in wrestles with the jealous ghost of his wife. "The Replacement" is the story of Norman, a widowed man who decides to take the leap back into the dating world. He invites a woman over for dinner but is surprised that, when she backs out of the date, a replacement guest shows up at his door.

Nominated! Outstanding New Play. 2003 Betty Mitchell Awards. Title: Respectable A play Author: Chambers, Ron Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female two acts

"Hork and Saul finally have a job that puts some coin in their pockets, some beer on the table, and might even make them respectable. It's like taking candy from a baby until they discover their boss is the brains behind a sinister plot that might just explode in their faces."

Title: Resurrection of John Frum, The

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1990

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - religion - Alberta playwright two characters flexible casting two acts

"For Issac, the key to hope lies in the teachings of Christ. Syd worships an obscure Melanesian cargo cult. What happens when they try to convert each other? An off-center look at the nature of faith, hope and salvation."

Title: Resurrection of John Frum, The in - The Courier and Other Plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - religion - Alberta playwright two characters flexible casting two acts

"For Issac, the key to hope lies in the teachings of Christ. Syd worships an obscure Melanesian cargo cult. What happens when they try to convert each other? An off-center look at the nature of faith, hope and salvation." Title: Riders of the Apocalypse The reunion tour Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1997

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - adventure - good and evil - death - Alberta playwright six character; extra three male; three female one act

"When Death suddenly retires, it panics her former riding companions Famine, Pestilence and War. As the world dizzily spins out of control, somebody has to convince Death to return. Or at least find out why she quit in the first place. Is this any way to run an Apocalypse?"

Title: Rites of Passage Three plays from Roseneath Theatre Author: Craig, David S. Craddock, Chris Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - comedy - Alberta playwright

contains: Smokescreen - David S. Craig Wrecked - Chris Craddock Napalm the Magnificent - David S. Craig

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Rites of Passage Three plays from Roseneath Theatre Author: Craig, David S. Craddock, Chris Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - comedy - Alberta playwright

contains: Smokescreen - David S. Craig Wrecked - Chris Craddock Napalm the Magnificent - David S. Craig

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Romeo Initiative, The

Author: Davies, Trina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2012

Description:

roy romantic comedy - thriller - historical - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts

Half romantic comedy and half spy-thriller, The Romeo Initiative is a journey into the heart that leaves audiences gasping. Single men are hard to come by in 1970s West Germany. So when Karin Maynard, a government secretary, meets the handsome Markus Richter, a single man who pursues her, she can hardly believe her luck. But with Markus continually away on business, thoughts of infidelity begin to consume Karin. Is her insecurity unwarranted, or is she onto something? Based on a real program in East Germany in which men were trained and sent to develop long-term

Title: Roundhouse

Author: LeMay, Bonnie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts

1 interior set.

A spirited comedy set in the 1920's with two couples becoming involved in the sabotage of a transcontinental silk train.

Title: Routes

Author: Doyle, Collin Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2009

Description:

roy young adult - Alberta playwright - bullying - family relations - violence all male cast; one character one male one act

suitable for school performances; intended audience: students age 14+; setting: on a bus traveling the roads of Millwoods, Edmonton; running time: 65 min.

"Routes" is a riveting one man play that delves into the impact of violence through the eyes of Tom, a fifteen year old boy living in Millwoods who escapes violence at home by riding his local bus until closing. As he journeys along the routes of his nine previous homes, we discover the Title: Saga of the Elk, The in - The Suicide Meet / CCO Author: Taylor, Jim Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1977

Description:

roy Alberta playwright - Canadian multiple characters two female; one male one act

Description not available.

Title: Saga of Tom Three Persons, The

Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1996

Description:

roy drama - biography - Native peoples - Canadian - Alberta playwright twenty-four characters nineteen male; five female two acts

The true story of the Blackfoot Indian, who against all odds, political, social and personal, won the saddle-bronc championship at the inaugural Calgary Stampede in 1912 by riding the unbeatable Cyclone to a standstill. The play centres on the newspaper reporter who at his own peril sets out to investigate the illusive and enigmatic cowboy with tumultuous results.

Title: Saints and Apostles, The

Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

The Saints and Apostles is a contemporary love story, complicated by the age of HIV infection. This is as warm and moving tale about the ultimate fear of intimacy which re-examines modern relationships, and the power and the limitations of love. Title: Saints and Apostles, The

Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

The Saints and Apostles is a contemporary love story, complicated by the age of HIV infection. This is as warm and moving tale about the ultimate fear of intimacy which re-examines modern relationships, and the power and the limitations of love.

Title: Saturday Night in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female one act

1 set.

'Teenagers argue for the right to borrow family car on Saturday Night.'

Title: Saucy Jack

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female two acts

"Pollock, implicates the most upper echelons of British society in the brutal murders of London's prostitutes. In a stately Victorian drawing room, two old friends, James Kenneth Stephen, a scholar, and his former pupil, Prince Albert Victor, dance around the truth of the identity of London's most notorious killer, and while a tale of psychological intrigue is played out, an unraveling of tested friendship, betrayal, duplicity, and motive is revealed. With the single female character of Kate, an actress hired by James to re-enact the death throes of the prostitutes, Pollock Title: Saucy Jack in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female two acts

Pollock implicates the most upper echelons of British society in the brutal murders of London's prostitutes. In a stately Victorian drawing room, two old friends, James Kenneth Stephen, a scholar, and his former pupil, Prince Albert Victor, dance around the truth of the identity of London's most notorious killer, and while a tale of psychological intrigue is played out, an unraveling of tested friendship, betrayal, duplicity, and motive is revealed. With the single female character of Kate, an actress hired by James to re-enact the death throes of the prostitutes, Pollock

Title: Scheme-A-Dream Christmas A new Christmas comedy Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1988

Description:

roy Christmas - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female three acts

"It's Christmas Eve in a balloon-a-gram office and the conflicts of the clown, Fifi the maid, Santa, an ape and a confused elf are all forced to be resolved when they get trapped in the office with no power or phones."

Title: School of Darkness

Author: Boston, Stewart Publisher: Performance Publishing 1972

Description:

roy drama - High School - Alberta playwright fourteen characters seven male; seven female one act

no set required.

A former teacher threatens the principal of the high school from which he has been banned. Because of this and his opposition to the social system, he is committed to a reprogramming centre. Title: School of Darkness

Author: Boston, Stewart Publisher: Performance Publishing 1972

Description:

roy drama - high school - Alberta playwright fourteen characters seven male; seven female one act

no set required.

A former teacher threatens the principal of the high school from which he has been banned. Because of this and his opposition to the social system, he is committed to a reprogramming centre.

Title: Science of Disconnection, The

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2010

Description:

roy drama - biography - Lise Meitner - monologue - Canadian - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

A play for solo performance based on the life of physicist Lise Meitner, a shy and withdrawn woman with a genius for mathematics and a passion for science whose discoveries literally changed the world. A story of quiet triumph and achievement in the face of discrimination, danger and betrayal.

Winner of the 2010 Sterling Award as the Outstanding New Play of the Year.

Title: Scripting a Province A history of the APN & Theatre 100 Author: Rueger, Trevor Publisher: B house 2009

Description:

Reference - Alberta - theatre history - Alberta Playwrights Network

Contains two works: A History of the APN - written and compiled by Trevor Rueger, with additional writing by Eugene Stickland, Connie Massing and Aaron Roe, special thanks to Sharon Pollock Theatre 100 - edited by Shari Wattling, contributing writers: James deFelice, Joyce Doolittle, Frank Glenfield, Charlotte Petti, Grant Reddick and Shelley Scott Title: Scrooge

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979

Description:

roy Christmas - Alberta playwright seven characters; extras five male; two female two acts

Based on the story by Charles Dickens.

Title: Scrooge

Author: Graves, Warren Dickens, Charles Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979

Description:

roy Christmas - Alberta playwright seven characters; extras five male; two female two acts

Based on the story by Charles Dickens.

Title: Scrooge: The Female Version

Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: William Rosewood Publishing 1995

Description:

roy Canadian - Christmas - women - Alberta playwright twenty characters one male; one female (doubling) three acts

"In this wacky spoof with an actor playing the caroler, the collector for charity, the dead business partner, three ghosts, ad all the other characters from the past, present, and future, Scrooge naturally is played by a woman." Title: Second Chance, First Love in - Palliser Suite / CCO Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Frontenac House 2014

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - relationships three characters two male; one female one act

part 2 of a trilogy of plays called "Palliser Suite"; can be produced as a one act or in conjunction with the other two, "Mr. Fix It" and "Funeral Fore!".

Decades later Zelda meets up with her first love, Stanley, a washed up sit com star in the hotel room. Does Zelda want to re-kindle her romance with Stanley or is something else her first love?

Title: Secret Life of the Octopus, The in - Things That Go Bump v. 2 / CHC Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Signature Editions 2010

Description:

roy children - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

When Leah and Willis are forced to serve their detentions in their school's gloomy science room, they reluctantly meet and then become attached to the mysterious eight-legged occupant of the corner aquarium.

Title: Seed Savers, The in - Voices of the Land / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: AU Press 2012

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - prairies - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In "The Seed Savers" farmers face pressure to purchase genetically modified seed. Title: Seeing in the Dark in - Metastasis and other plays / CCO Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: NeWest Press 2009

Description:

roy radio play - Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eighteen characters fourteen male; four female one act

length - 1 hour.

A prisoner is unexpectedly granted parole form prison. A beautifully written description of the inner life of a charming but unstable and violent man – making his way back home through a morality free wasteland.

Title: Seen Any Good Movies Lately?

Author: MacKillop, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters three male; three female one act

"A bad playwright hoping to diffuse the issue of fatherhood with his estranged son, stages an evening with him at his grandfather's farm, only to discover fatherhood is the issue."

Title: Selling Mr. Rushdie in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female two acts

What would you do for $1 million? Is there any level to which you would not sink? You could commit stock fraud – it almost worked for Bre-X. Maybe you could manipulate the net worth of your company and grab all the investor money you could stuff into your pockets. That nearly worked at Enron. Or, maybe you could kidnap and sell a certain notorious author to Iran for a cool million – making sure, of course, that you have the right man. Trio of losers tries to bag Salman Rushdie. Title: Sequence

Author: Lakra, Arun Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

Theo has been named Time Magazine’s Luckiest Man Alive. For twenty consecutive years he has successfully bet double or nothing on the Super Bowl coin toss. And he’s getting ready to risk millions on the twenty-first when he is confronted by Cynthia, a young woman who claims to have figured out his mathematical secret. Stem-cell researcher and professor Dr. Guzman is on the verge of a groundbreaking discovery. She’s also learned that one of her students has defied probability to get all 150 multiple-choice questions wrong on his genetics exam, but it’s not until

Title: Shakespeare's Will

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Shakespeare - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female series of vignettes

"Shakespeare's Will explores the extraordinary life of Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, from a very passionate and human point of view. In a mystically imaginative narrative, Anne reflects on a lifetime spent with, and without, her husband. From the moment they meet at the Faire, to the disapproving tone of her father when they marry, to the birth of their children, to their shared tragedy, this haunting story reveals a world of love, loss and longing.

Title: Shaman

Author: Foord, Isabelle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973

Description:

roy children - fantasy - Alberta playwright five characters; four male; one female one act

Shaman's evil rival Ooktah is changing all the Arctic's animals into naked newts. Can Shaman's good magic reverse Ooktah's curse? With help from Musk Ox and Owl, the mission is accomplished, Ooktah turned into a delightful seal, and Shaman can once again get some rest. Title: Shaman

Author: Foord, Isabelle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973

Description:

roy children - fantasy - Alberta playwright five characters; four male; one female one act

Shaman's evil rival Ooktah is changing all the Arctic's animals into naked newts. Can Shaman's good magic reverse Ooktah's curse? With help from Musk Ox and Owl, the mission is accomplished, Ooktah turned into a delightful seal, and Shaman can once again get some rest.

Title: Sharon Pollock Essays on Her Works Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Guernica Editions 2000

Description:

Reference - Alberta playwright

"Sharon Pollock was born in New Brunswick, and is now living in Calgary. With "The Komagata Maru Incident" in 1976, Sharon Pollock became the most controversial playwright in Canada. She does not shy away from confronting difficult questions, both political and personal. Her many plays staged across the country have given Canadian theatre a distinctive voice. This collection of essays is the first book on Sharon Pollock's work, a career which spans over thirty years and several cities."

Title: Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 1

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy - collection - Sharon Pollock - Canadian plays - Alberta playwright

includes: Walsh The Komagata Maru Incident Wreck of the National Line Sweet Land of Liberty One Tiger to a Hill Generations Blood Relations

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 2

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy - collection - Sharon Pollock - Canadian plays - Alberta playwright

includes: Whiskey Six Cadenza Doc Prairie Dragons Getting it Straight "It's all Make Believe Isn't It? - Marilyn Monroe Constance Saucy Jack Fair Liberty's Call

Title: Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy - collection - Sharon Pollock - Canadian plays - Alberta playwright

includes: Death in the Family Moving Pictures End Dream Angel's Trumpet The Making of Warriors Kabloona Talk Man Out of Joint

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Sharon Pollock: Three Plays

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - Sharon Pollock - Alberta playwright

contains: Moving Pictures End Dream Angel's Trumpet

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Shatter

Author: Davies, Trina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy Canadian history - drama - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

1917. The largest man-made explosion prior to Hiroshima. Two thousand dead, hundreds injured and blinded, and many more homeless. Shatter explores the little-known details of the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Anna MacLean is a teenager, thrilled with her new diary, ripe with the promise of youth, and flush with excitement at all of the handsome soldiers in the streets of Halifax. Though Anna’s mother and her best friend, Elsie Schultz, talk of the war, Anna can only think about whether the young man at the door enforcing the blackout order

Title: Shocker's Delight! in - A Teatro Trilogy - CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press 2004

Description:

roy comedy - relationships - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts

'A trio of questing college kids find themselves in a love triangle and rise above it with grace and good humour.'

Title: Shockers Delight! in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 77, Winter 1993 / PER Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts

'The lives of a ballroom dancer, a golfer, and a Biedermeier historian intertwine on the campus of the University of North America in Stewart Lemoine's comic hit from Edmonton's Teatro la Quindicina.' Title: Shopaholic in - Four by Four by Four / CCO Author: Stirling, Glenda Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright thirteen characters one male; two female (doubling) one act

prequel to "Shopaholic Husband Hunt" and "Shopaholic Wedding Bells".

Abigail Adams is an addict, but she isn’t addicted to something nasty like heroin or even booze or cigarettes. Abbie is a shopaholic, and her addiction inspires more laughs than sympathy. She can’t go by a mall without picking up a few things. She bemoans the state of her finances, but she can’t pass up a sale. Her love life is rocky, but she makes up for it by adding something new to

Title: Show Me the Wey-Hey! in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Golosky, Julie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy Canadian - children - Alberta - Alberta playwright eight characters two male; two female (doubling; flexible casting) one act

running time: 15 min.; setting: Northern Alberta; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.

A play based on the playwright's own experience with stage fright after a number of years immersed in classical music and the quest for the "perfect sound". Like Violet, she felt that she had lost her voice and a connection to the songs of her past. She had thought about giving up many times, but her friends and family continued to encourage her to keep singing. They helped her

Title: Silver's Secret

Author: Nixon, Charlotte Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 2015

Description:

roy comedy - children - Alberta playwright large cast flexible casting one act (five scenes)

This goofy pirate play is a treasure chest full of silliness with cheerleader mermaids, ghosts, smugglers, and lobsters as comic stagehands! As the famous pirate Long John Silver lies on his deathbed, he sends for his sons, Red Beard and Black Beard, and his daughter, No Beard. Alas, his offspring didn’t inherit their father’s pirating skills! Luckily, each bumbling pirate has a “smee” as an assistant, because their father sends them off to find the three keys to the treasure chest that holds his life’s treasure. The children and their respective smees dash off to adventures, for Title: Sinners Three in - The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1986

Description:

roy comedy - black comedy - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

"Brief and psychotic comedy of forbidden love in the gutters and drawing rooms of the Austrian capital."

Title: Sister Ella

Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2002

Description:

roy comedy - musical - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

'A young girl from Grand Prairie reunites with her West Coast biological mother and her twin half sisters for the first time. A modern take on Cinderella.'

Title: Sister Virtue A one-act drama exposing the perils of puberty Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - disabilities - religion - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

1 interior set.

A woman struggles to deal with her mentally disabled son, her religious daughter, and the hired hand on the farm. Title: Sitting on Paradise in - Two Plays / CCO Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1999

Description:

roy comedy - relationships - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

"In this play, a business man, and Wolf, his spiritual mentor, develop plans for Synchronicity Ridge, a commune for the millenium, a gated cooperative in the wilderness. All is well until Roy's wife, Dotty, hears of it. She won't stand for any of it. This play pokes fun at rampant materialism and our relationship to our 'stuff'."

Title: Sliding for Home

Author: Moher, Frank Reid, Gerald Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three or four male; two or one female two acts

one exterior set; music by Gerald Reid and William Shookoff.

His mother wants him to return to Buffalo, the land of his birth and the local authorities view him as a foreign zealot - a threat to Canada's finest sport - curling. But in this boisterous "comedy with music in nine innings," Charlie Dempsey is a man with a dream. He must bring professional baseball to "Edmonton", Alberta.

Title: Solstice Mutiny, The A radio play Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters five male three acts

A radio play based on the mutiny which led to the death of Henry Hudson. Title: Some Assembly Required

Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Coteau Books 1995

Description:

roy dark comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

Mom and Dad aren't going to have Christmas this year - or so they think. 'Home for the Holidays - chestnuts roasting on an open fire - jingle bells - I'm dreaming of a white. . . wait a minute! This isn't the Christmas Eugene Stickland had in mind for us and for the wacky, beleaguered members of his 'all-Canadian' dysfunctional family - losers, big time - as they gather around the family tree at gunpoint, under mistletoe strung on barbed wire, and sip eggnog made without milk (try it, its not bad).'

Title: Some Assembly Required

Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Coteau Books 1995

Description:

roy dark comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts

Mom and Dad aren't going to have Christmas this year - or so they think. 'Home for the Holidays - chestnuts roasting on an open fire - jingle bells- I'm dreaming of a white. . . wait a minute! This isn't the Christmas Eugene Stickland had in mind for us and for the wacky, beleaguered members of his 'all-Canadian' dysfunctional family - losers, big time - as they gather around the family tree at gunpoint, under mistletoe strung on barbed wire, and sip eggnog made without milk (try it, its not bad).'

Title: Something Dead and Evil Lurks in the Cemetery, and It's My Dad

Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright six characters; narrator four male; one female (doubling) one act (five scenes)

running time: 90 min.

A tax auditor finds himself in a B-movie about the living dead and discovers how to live. Title: Something Like a Drug An Unauthorized Oral History of Theatresports Author: Foreman, Kathleen Joyce Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1995

Description:

Reference - Improvisation - Theatre-history - Theatresports - Alberta playwright

"...chronicles the growth of one of the most significant theatrical movements to come out of Canada in the last half century - theatresports. A "drug", a "buzz", a kick", "instantaneous storytelling", "gladiatorial improvisation" - theatresports has been described as these and more. In the words of those who participated in the growth of this curious sports and improvisational theatre hybrid, ... looks at how theatresports first sprang to life and how, over the period of a decade, it has grown into a sprawling international league spanning four continents and encompassing many thousands of improvisors."

Title: Sorcerer's Apprentice, The

Author: Doolittle, Joyce Publisher: Miscellaneous 1965

Description:

roy Canadian - children - fantasy - Alberta playwright three characters; two male; one female one act (three scenes)

A sorcerer's apprentice takes advantage of the sorcerer's magic and creates havoc.

Title: Sorcerer's Apprentice, The

Author: Doolittle, Joyce Publisher: Miscellaneous 1965

Description:

roy children - fantasy - Alberta playwright three characters; two male; one female one act (three scenes)

A sorcerer's apprentice takes advantage of the sorcerer's magic and creates havoc. Title: Soul Mate

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts

For Centuries demons have played the game of offering mortals their fondest wish in exchange for their souls. When Moira Bedham get drawn into the sport, the unexpected choice of her victim may most her more than anyone (or any demon) expected. A high-spirited comedy of demons desire and discovering humanity.

Title: Souvenirs of Home

Author: Quan, Elyne Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005

Description:

roy drama - immigrants - relationships - historical - Alberta playwright all female cast; three characters three female one act

simple set.

"The lives of three Chinese women intersect in the 1960s on the Canadian Prairies as each of them search for the meaning of "home"."

Title: Spill and Spell in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; five characters five female one act

A young coed with the ability to smell lies struggles to make new friends. Title: Spring Alibi

Author: Edwards, Linda Wood Publisher: Miscellaneous 1996

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - romance - Alberta playwright - Yukon two characters one male; one female one act

running time: 60 min.; setting: present day Yukon.

Spring in the Yukon! The spectacular view from Marlene's window leads her to some private discoveries. But other people have windows too. A romantic comedy about voyeurism, food, and the 8-track tape.

Title: Stampede in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright twenty-four characters; extras sixteen male; eight female three acts

3 sets; requires music; singing.

'Camaraderie of ranch hands is broken by jealous man who reveals foreman as wanted outlaw.'

Title: Starter Home in - Three on the Boards / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: Signature Editions 2007

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female seven scenes

"Vanessa and Wayne are in love and want to move in together. They find the perfect starter home for rent, but they're not so sure about the landlady." Title: Still Stands the House

Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Samuel French 1939

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

"A man offers to buy Bruce's farm. His wife wants to sell; but his sister, who lives with them, refuses to move. She lives in the past and recalls how she passed up marriage to be a mother to Bruce and housekeeper to Father. She wants nothing changed. But Bruce decides he will sell for his wife's sake, and runs out in the winter blizzard to find a mare. His wife realizes that his lantern will burn out before he goes the three miles to the coulee, and asks the sister to fill another lantern while she puts on a coat to go after her husband. She dashes out: the sister has

Title: Still Stands the House in - Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Methuen 1973

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

'Set in rural Canada. Woman is so obsessed with keeping her childhood home intact, she knowingly sends her brother and his wife to their deaths in a blizzard.'

Title: Still Stands the House in - The Prairie Experience / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: MacMillan 1975

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

'Set in rural Canada. Woman is so obsessed with keeping her childhood home intact, she knowingly sends her brother and his wife to their deaths in a blizzard.' Title: Still Stands The House in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

1 set.

'Set in rural Canada. Woman is so obsessed with keeping her childhood home intact, she knowingly sends her brother and his wife to their deaths in a blizzard.'

Title: Stragglers

Author: Martin, Eric Roland Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters five male two acts

1 interior set.

The victorious of war are no less its victim than the defeated. Five Canadian veterans of WWII and Korea have experienced horror in the cause of Freedom, but their final reward is neglect and obscurity.

Title: Stragglers

Author: Martin, Eric Roland Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters five male two acts

1 interior set.

The victorious of war are no less its victim than the defeated. Five Canadian veterans of WWII and Korea have experienced horror in the cause of Freedom, but their final reward is neglect and obscurity. Title: Stranger, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragedy - Alberta playwright nine characters; extras six male; three female one act

1 set; speaking chorus.

'Proud Indian woman, embittered by loss of her white lover to rich white woman, kills herself and their son in revenge.'

Title: Stranger, The in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934 - 1984 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragedy - Alberta playwright nine characters; extras six male; three female one act

1 set; speaking chorus.

'Proud Indian woman, embittered by loss of her white lover to rich white woman, kills herself and their son in revenge.'

Title: Strategies Business of being a playwright in Canada, The Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2000

Description:

Strategies is a book of mini-portraits of Canadian theatres and institutions complete with mandates, sample seasons and submissions procedures. Book contains sections about Theatres, Universities and Colleges, Festivals, service Organizations, Grants, Agencies, Competitions, Residencies, Rights Agencies, Agents, Publishers, and Awards.

Alberta playwright Title: Strategies Business of being a playwright in Canada, The Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2000

Description:

Strategies is a book of mini-portraits of Canadian theatres and institutions complete with mandates, sample seasons and submissions procedures. Book contains sections about Theatres, Universities and Colleges, Festivals, service Organizations, Grants, Agencies, Competitions, Residencies, Rights Agencies, Agents, Publishers, and Awards.

Alberta playwright

Title: Stray

Author: Quan, Elyne Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005

Description:

roy drama - family relations - Alberta playwrights four characters two male; two female one act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"Eight years after Kim's older brother went missing, a stranger arrives at her family's door claiming to be him. Once he's invited in, he upends everything the family thought they knew about themselves and each other."

Title: Suicide Meet, The in - The Suicide Meet / CCO Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1977

Description:

roy Alberta playwright - Canadian - comedy multiple characters two female; one male one act

" "The Suicide Meet" was true Canadiana - with all our warts showing. Parts made me squirm with their truisms - parts made me reminisce briefly - a few parts were sad in their candor... After the series of skits was over, little sardonic slices of life as crude and unabashed as picking your nose in public, I realized I felt good, I was entertained." - Shirley Gordon, Radio CKXL, Calgary

No further description available. Title: Suicide Meet, The

Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1977

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Alberta playwrights

includes: The Suicide Meet - Mary Humphrey Baldridge Pickle - Sheila Junor-Moore The Saga of the Elk - Jim Taylor

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Summer of My Amazing Luck The play Author: Craddock, Chris Toews, Miriam Publisher: Signature Editions 2007

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - life - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts

Based on the novel by Miriam Toews. "Very unlucky things have happened to Lucy. She lost her mom and to fill the void she got pregnant. Now she's in the Have-A-Life (better known as Half-a-Life) welfare housing for single mothers - but she thinks her luck's about to turn. Leaving their rat-fink neighbours behind, Lucy and her friend Lish load the kids into a beat-up van for a hair-brained, hilarious and heartwarming journey. It's a play about love, generosity and wishful thinking. It's also a cutting and comical look at 'having a life' below the poverty line.

Title: Summer of My Amazing Luck The play Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: Signature Editions 2007

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - life - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts

Based on the novel by Miriam Toews. "Very unlucky things have happened to Lucy. She lost her mom and to fill the void she got pregnant. Now she's in the Have-A-Life (better known as Half-a-Life) welfare housing for single mothers - but she thinks her luck's about to turn. Leaving their rat-fink neighbours behind, Lucy and her friend Lish load the kids into a beat-up van for a hair-brained, hilarious and heartwarming journey. It's a play about love, generosity and wishful thinking. It's also a cutting and comical look at 'having a life' below the poverty line. Winner of Title: Sun Runner, The

Author: Dyba, Kenneth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - death - Alberta playwright seven characters three male; four female (doubling) two acts

"A mother dying of cancer comes to terms with her family, her memories and, ultimately, her impending death. She learns to reconcile the intimacy of dying with the public expression."

Title: SuperEd in - NextFest Anthology / CCO Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: NeWest Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - coming of age - Alberta playwright thirteen characters one male (performs all characters) one act

"'SuperEd' is a funny and touching coming-of-age battle between the fundamentalist television religiosity inflicted upon the protagonist and the comic book idealism he has acquired for himself. Underneath the lightening character switches, the great 'trouble light' acting, and hilarious jokes is a simple story of a young boy searching for a hero. While this journey towards manhood is one of Craddock's best crafted tales, it is also the first of many outrageous caricatures of prairie manners and mores to follow, often combining his fascination with popular culture, and

Title: Support Ho's

Author: Edwards, Linda Wood Publisher: Miscellaneous 2009

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - friendship - full script online - Alberta playwright four characters one male; three female one act

running time: 60 min.; setting: a restaurant.

Four women use their weekly breakfast gathering as the anchor to friendship and saner times. When the sanctity of their Friday foursome is threatened, they and their waiter kick into high gear to rediscover and hold onto what is precious. Title: Sweet Land of Liberty in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works: Volume One / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy radio plays - Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright nine characters; flexible casting five male; one female; three flexible one act

"Tom, a Vietnam deserter, is living in an Alberta town as a boarder with a single mom and her young son. Tom is haunted by his war experiences and his painful rejection by his parents. He is almost totally dysfunctional: he cannot work, barely speaks and only communicates meaningfully with the little boy. Aware of Tom's need for reconciliation with his father, the little boy's mother secretly arranges a meeting. The reunion proves so devastating for Tom that he kills himself. A Native Indian, who is probably a hallucination, is an accomplice to the suicide." Canada Australian

Title: Swimmers in - Playhouse: Six Fantasy Plays for Children / CHC Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1989

Description:

roy children - fantasy - Alberta playwright - Canadian five characters three male; one female one act

'Two improbable friends imagine a world of only water, but this environment turns into an unexpected nightmare until they begin to face reality and better understand the nature of friendship.'

Title: Swipe in - New Canadian Drama 3 / CCO Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: Borealis Press 1984

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragicomedy - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female one act

"A group of salvation hungry river tramps, led by a huckster named Peck Woodstick, await the arrival of the King of Tramps, who disappeared several years before." Title: Swipe in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: AU Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragicomedy - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female one act

A group of salvation hungry river tramps, led by a huckster named Peck Woodstick, await the arrival of the King of Tramps, who disappeared several years before.

Title: Take a Bite

Author: Morrow, Heather Publisher: Miscellaneous 2011

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - full script online two characters one male; one female one act

setting: an empty room; running time: 60 min.

An older woman and a younger man wake up in a locked room together...and get up to mischief. When Vera awakes in an empty room with a young stranger, she thinks it's her boyfriend's latest kinky trick. He, Dion, thinks he's been locked up again after a bender, but with better company than usual. The truth is weirder, and better, than either thinks. The weirdest chat-up you'll ever

Title: Take Me Where the Water's Warm

Author: DeFelice, James Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female three acts

1 exterior set.

A distinguished author seeks out an old flame on Vancouver Island in order to get his love letters back. Complications arise when he meets a young sculptor who is about to make the same mistake in love as he did, and with the same letters. Title: Tales From the Hospital in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Schmidt, Trevor Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - Alberta - Canadian - Alberta playwright - historical all female cast; four characters four female one act

'The production of Trevor Schmidt's "Tales From the Hospital" in May 1998 served as a timely reminder for Edmonton audiences that the painful effects of the Alberta sterilization act that was enforced between 1927 and 1973 could not easily be forgotten.' The play is a tour of a such a hospital where the stories are told as monologues by two patients, a nurse and a laundry woman, all composites of many real people.

Title: Tears of a Dinosaur in - Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp and Other Plays / CCO Author: Brooker, Blake Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - family relations - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

A taut, mischievous meditation on the modern family with mom, pop, adopted son and numerous dinosaurs.

Title: Teatro Trilogy, A

Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press 2004

Description:

roy - Canadian collection - comedy - Alberta playwright

contains: Shockers Delight! Pith! The Margin of the Sky

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Teeter Totter

Author: MacKillop, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1997

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act

A German-Canadian, while repairing a Mountie's cruiser, insists on telling her about gassing his child. Based upon Canada's first euthanasia case.

Title: Ten Times Two

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1999

Description:

roy drama - romance - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female (doubling) two acts

"When an evil-doer cursed with immortality falls for a barmaid in 1399, it is the start of romantic pursuit spanning the Middle Ages to Modern Times. But in order to believe in this reincarnating, the villain must learn to become a lover."

First produced in 1999 at the Edmonton Fringe, Alberta.

Title: That Darn Plot!

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Samuel French 2002

Description:

roy comedy - theatre - relationships - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female two acts

'Mark W. Transom, one of Canada's greatest playwrights, is at the end of his rope. In order to fulfil his contract to artistic director and old friend Jo Harber, he has to create a play in one night or lose everything. Half asleep and half drunk, Transom starts putting theatrical personalities he knows into a simple comedy about putting on a play. As the characters come to life before his eyes, the play seems to be progressing well until, unbidden and without warning, Transom's son appears as a character and the play takes on a life of its own. As the playwright struggles to Title: Theatre 100 Celebrating 100 theatre practitioners over 100 years Author: Publisher: Alberta Playwrights' Network 2006

Description:

Reference - Alberta playwrights - historical - biographies

"Alberta Playwrights’ Network pays tribute to 100 Albertans, past and present, who have made a significant contribution to theatre in the province. It's an invaluable record documenting important figures in Alberta’s cultural and theatre history. The book is vital in preserving Alberta’s theatre legacy for future generations."

Title: Theatre Without Borders

Author: Astle, Robert Publisher: Signature Editions 2002

Description:

reference - Canadian Theatre - Alberta Playwright

'In this lively series of interviews, Robert Astle takes us backstage to meet a fascinating group of theatre artists, Astel has collected a wealth of information about the influential but rarely documented world of physical theatre, commedia dell'arte, puppetry, mime and mask theatre. The practitioners and performers featured here speak with passion about the global touring they undertake, their influences and inspiration, philosophy and practice, how they learned their craft and how they are teaching it to the next generation. These are seasoned Canadian artists with international pedigrees who, ironically, are often better known beyond our borders than they are in their own hometowns.'

Artists include: Axis Theatre - Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes - Yves Dagenais (aka

Title: They Don't Call Them Farmers Anymore

Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1992

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - farming - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act

A third generation small farm family struggles against all odds to keep its head above water. In poetic fashion the play explores the complexities of tradition, solidarity, betrayal and the deep love of the land. Title: Third Ascent, The

Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1990

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; six characters six male two acts

This is a drama of Henry Stimson, Triuman's Secretary of War, his decision to drop the atomic bomb, and his spiritual quest for the Thunderbird...

Title: Third Ascent, The

Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; six characters six male two acts

The story of Henry Stimson, President Truman's Secretary of War, his decision to drop the atomic bomb and his spiritual quest for the Thunderbird.

Winner of the 1988 Sterling Award for Outstanding New Play.

Title: Third Ascent, The in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; six characters six male two acts

This is a drama of Henry Stimson, Triuman's Secretary of War, his decision to drop the atomic bomb, and his spiritual quest for the Thunderbird... Title: This Day

Author: Penman, Steve Publisher: Steve Penman 2006

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright five characters five male or female one act

1 simple set.

A short fast-paced play in which the central character struggles to find out where he/she is and what is going on. There is a great deal of unhelpful "help" from other characters.

Title: Three Little Pigs and Other Capitalist Lies

Author: MacKillop, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

"A Marxist author of children's books rejects suggestions from his farmer father and an amorous social worker on what to do with the tonne of bad Nicaraguan coffee in his attic."

Title: Three Martini Lunch, A

Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2000

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - Clem Martini - one-acts - Alberta playwright

includes: Conversations with my Neighbour's Pit Bull House of Glass Up on the Roof

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Three Quest Plays for Children

Author: James, JoAnne Publisher: Red Deer College Press

Description:

roy - collection - childrens plays - Canadian - JoAnne James - Alberta playwright

contains: The Echo Box Moving Day Willa and Sam

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Three Quest Plays for Children

Author: James, JoAnne Publisher: Red Deer College Press

Description:

roy - collection - childrens plays - Canadian - JoAnne James - Alberta playwright

contains: The Echo Box Moving Day Willa and Sam

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Three Really Nasty Plays

Author: Chambers, Ron Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1997

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - drama - Ron Chambers - Alberta playwright

contains: Marg Szkaluba (Pissy's Wife) Dirt Pretty Blue

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Thursday Continued

Author: MacKillop, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female one act

"A brain damaged man's journey through the stations of a light rail transit system parallels Christ's last journey, but with a different ending."

Title: Tofu Wars, The in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Ouchi, Mieko Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy Canadian - children - Japanese - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; two female (doubling) one act

running time: 15 min.; setting: Powell Street, Vancouver, 1931; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.

Based on Ouchi's memories of the stories her beloved grandmother Betty "Yoko" Ouchi told her when she was a child, about growing up in the vibrant Japanese Canadian community on Powell Street before WWII.

Title: Tom Form and the Speed of Love

Author: Pengilly, Gordon Bateman, Victor Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006

Description:

roy drama - music - mystery - Canadian - Alberta playwright twelve characters; musicians; voices eight male; four female (doubling possible) two acts

music by Victor Bateman.

A cynical private detective takes on the job of helping a strange, sultry woman recover her memory. When the trail leads him into his own dark past he struggles to accept love into his life while finding a way to solve the mystery. Part film noir and part jazz opera the play looks hard at the sex slave trade and asks us to consider the existence of angels. Title: Too Many Kings in - Chinook and Too Many Kings / CHC Author: Campbell, Paddy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

Description:

roy children - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters; four male; one female one act

An assistant to the master story-teller mixes up the magic and conjures up three kings at once!

Title: Tornado Magnet A salute to trailer court women Author: Hagen, Darrin Publisher: Brindle & Glass 2007

Description:

roy monologues - Canadian - women - comedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

Dotty Parsons has set her mind to debunking a myth or two about living in a trailer. "No cupboard will go unopened, no Niagara Falls souvenir cushion will go unturned" in this funny and heartwarming macaroni and cheese mission to end "Mobile home-ophobia" once and for all.

Title: True Grid

Author: Edwards, Linda Wood Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010

Description:

roy comedy - football - sports - Alberta - Edmonton - full script online - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female one act

setting: Edmonton, Alberta; period - May to November 2006; running time: 60 min.

4 guys x 28 football seasons = over a century of bonding, The digital copy of the play will download automatically through Google Drive when you click the link below., and winning. Subtract 1 guy, add a lovely stranger, and risk breaking the streak. Join these devoted fans as they lose and rediscover their faith during an ill-fated season. Superstitious about anything? You'll Title: Turnaround

Author: Martini, Clem Foggo, Cheryl Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1999

Description:

roy Canadian - young adult - Alberta playwright - family relations four characters one male; three female one act

Thirteen year old Megan lives in a group home and feels fairly independent. When her mother, a former alcoholic, appears on the scene and tries to re-establish custody, Megan hires a lawyer and seeks a formal divorce.

Title: Two Guys Out O' Kelowna Based on Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - British Columbia - a play for television - Alberta playwright - Shakespeare adaptation eight characters; extra six male; two female three acts

setting: today in the West

Based on "Two Gentlemen of Verona" by William Shakespeare

Title: Two Plays

Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1999

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - comedy - family relations - Eugene Stickland - Alberta playwright

contains: Sitting on Paradise A Guide to Morning

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Two Plays

Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1999

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - comedy - family relations - Eugene Stickland - Alberta playwright

contains: Sitting on Paradise A Guide to Morning

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Ugly Man, The As published in Theatrum Magazine (June/July/Aug 1992) Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1992

Description:

roy drama - Canadian- Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female one act

1 interior set.

Description not available.

Title: Ugly Man, The

Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1993

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female one act

1 interior set.

Description not available. Title: Under The Arch in - Canadian Theatre Review No.10, Spring 1976 / PER Author: Campbell, Paddy Skolnik, Wm. Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy musical - dance hall - Alberta playwright large cast flexible casting one act

Description not available.

Title: Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love in - Love and Human Remains / CCO Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1996

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts

various sets.

Set in Edmonton, Alberta. A serial killer is loose in an urban labyrinth of friends grasping for some kind of love and direction in their lives.

Title: Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love

Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1990

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts

various sets.

Set in Edmonton, Alberta. A serial killer is loose in an urban labyrinth of friends grasping for some kind of love and direction in their lives. Title: Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love

Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1990

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts

various sets.

Set in Edmonton, Alberta. A serial killer is loose in an urban labyrinth of friends grasping for some kind of love and direction in their lives.

Title: Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love

Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1990

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts

various sets.

Set in Edmonton, Alberta. A serial killer is loose in an urban labyrinth of friends grasping for some kind of love and direction in their lives.

Title: Up on the Roof in - A Three Martini Lunch / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - relationships - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

"An unwitting Robert is placed on a rooftop with a dueling couple who must come to terms with their disintegrating lives and an uncertain future." Title: Valentine in - The Courier and Other Plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations - Alberta playwright one character all male cast; one male one act

setting: night, June 1963, Saskatchewan, a farmer's field, the edge of the wood; running time: approx. 12-15 min.

"After a hard working but rich life with his wife, Victor finds himself unprepared for the domestic duty of raising his teenage son alone ..."

Title: Vern Thiessen: Two Plays

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Vern Thiessen - Alberta playwright

includes: Apple Blowfish

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Vern Thiessen: Two Plays

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Vern Thiessen - Alberta playwright

includes: Apple Blowfish

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Very Small Rebellion, A in - Ooomerhagi Oh! and A Very Small Rebellion / CHC Author: Truss, Jan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy children - Canadian - historical drama - Alberta playwright seven characters; extras three male; two female (doubling) one act

A dramatization of Louis Riel's Northwest Rebellion.

Title: Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas

Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1986

Description:

roy - comedy - collection - one act - Stewart Lemoine - Alberta playwright

collection contains: The Vile Governess The Bad and the Sick Sinners Three

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Vile Governess, The in - The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1986

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright six characters two male; four female one act

"An Ibsenesque romp set in Vienna where a bourgeois family's world is turned upside down by the arrival of a terrifying governess and a loveable dog." Title: Vimy in - Vimy and Bluebirds / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - war - Alberta playwright eight characters seven male; one female (doubling possible) two acts

France, 1917. Four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge, waiting to find out where they’ll be sent next: back home or back to the front. Along with a young nurse from Nova Scotia, they share their stories, reasons for fighting, and treasured memories. In Vimy, Governor General’s Literary Award–winner Vern Thiessen brings us a classic play that is not about war, but a reflection of the everyday lives of soldiers—their hopes and their dreams—and how actions can define individuals and nations.

Title: Vimy

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007

Description:

roy drama - war - Canadian history - Alberta playwright eight characters seven male; one female (doubling possible) two acts

France. 1917. Aided by a nurse from Nova Scotia, four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge. Governor General’s Literary Award winner Vern Thiessen explores how a nation’s defining moment is reflected in the lives of everyday people, their hopes and their dreams.

Title: Vimy

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007

Description:

roy drama - war - Canadian history - Alberta playwright eight characters seven male; one female (doubling possible) two acts

France. 1917. Aided by a nurse from Nova Scotia, four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge. Governor General’s Literary Award winner Vern Thiessen explores how a nation’s defining moment is reflected in the lives of everyday people, their hopes and their dreams. Title: Vimy in - Canada and the Theatre of War: Vol. 1 / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - war - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright eight characters seven male; one female (doubling possible) two acts

France. 1917. Aided by a nurse from Nova Scotia, four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge. Governor General’s Literary Award winner Vern Thiessen explores how a nation’s defining moment is reflected in the lives of everyday people, their hopes and their dreams.

Title: Vimy

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007

Description:

roy drama - war - Canadian history - Alberta playwright eight characters seven male; one female (doubling possible) two acts

France. 1917. Aided by a nurse from Nova Scotia, four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge. Governor General’s Literary Award winner Vern Thiessen explores how a nation’s defining moment is reflected in the lives of everyday people, their hopes and their dreams.

Title: Vimy and Bluebirds

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy - drama - Canadian - Vern Thiessen - Alberta playwright

contains: Vimy Bluebirds

See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Vimy and Bluebirds

Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy - drama - Canadian - Vern Thiessen - Alberta playwright

contains: Vimy Bluebirds

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Voices of the Land The seed savers and other plays Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: AU Press 2012

Description:

roy - collection - Canadian - Katherine Koller - Alberta playwright

includes: Cowboy Boots and a Corsage The Early Worm Club Abby's Place The Seed Savers

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Von Mitterbrink's Second A comedy of honour in five fits Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act (five scenes)

Count Alaric Von Holtzburg has been insulted and, determined to win back his honour, he has challenged Klaus Von Mitterbrink to a duel. A duel the Count will undoubtedly win. But things start to go awry when a young woman arrives claiming to be Von Mitterbrink's second. This starts a battle of wills that require more in the way of strategy and scheming that swordsmanship. A rapier witted comedy/drama of scheming and dueling. Title: Wail, Winds, Wail in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female one act

1 set.

'Parents at dinner party lament children's involvement in peace marches and other types of rebellion.'

Title: Waiting for the Parade

Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1980

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright all female cast; five characters five female one act

Five women work for the war effort in Calgary while their husbands are overseas. Tragedy and humor interweave as each of them copes with the impingement of war on her daily life.

Title: Waiting for the Parade

Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1980

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright all female cast; five characters five female one act

Five women work for the war effort in Calgary while their husbands are overseas. Tragedy and humor interweave as each of them copes with the impingement of war on her daily life. Title: Wall, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters one male; two female; two boys radio play

1 set.

'Well-to-do mother forbids her boy to play with neighbour's son, when she sees he is black.'

Title: Walsh in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (3rd ed. ) / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1993

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts

An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn.

Title: Walsh

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1973

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts

An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn. Title: Walsh

Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1973

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts

An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn.

Title: Walsh in - Sharon Pollack: Collected Works: Volume 1 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts

An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn.

Title: Walsh in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (rev. ed.) / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1986

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts

An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn. Title: Waxworks

Author: Davies, Trina Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2007

Description:

roy drama - biographical - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts

1789. The edge of the French Revolution, and a young Madame Tussaud is recalled from her post at the Palace of Versailles back to Dr. Curtius' Wax Salon in the heart of Paris. There she is introduced to the most influential persons in Paris, including Maximilien Robespierre, who takes a particular interest in her art. As the revolution descends into shadow, Marie is forced to confront the remains of those she has befriended - whose waxen images must be set with signs that identify them as 'patriots' or 'enemies'.

Title: West of the 3rd Meridian

Author: Davies, Trina Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2010

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright eight characters one male; one female (doubling) one act

n one house, in a particular location, the weight of expectation has become too much. Four couples from four different times, haunt the same farmhouse, trying to find peace in the little comedies that make up daily life. The 'meridian' is a physical location on the prairies, but is also the pinnacle, the best, the highest point of a star. West of the 3rd Meridian is populated with characters who find softness in feeling just a bit short of where they set out to be.

Title: When Girls Collide

Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada

Description:

roy comedy - WWII - Alberta playwright all female cast; three characters three female two acts

"It's 1943. There's a war on and Bunsen Bay is a town without men. Three citizens find themselves bound together by a tangled web of family secrets, psychotherapy and ping pong." Title: Whiskey Six Cadenza in - NeWest Plays by Women / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters seven male; four female (doubling) two acts

"Set in the town of Blairmore, nestled in the Crowsnest Pass, just after World War I, the play raises questions about the power of parents over the lives of their children, and about the ironies and attendant responsibilities of free choice."

Title: Whiskey Six Cadenza in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters seven male; four female (doubling) two acts

Set in the town of Blairmore, nestled in the Crowsnest Pass, just after World War I, the play raises questions about the power of parents over the lives of their children, and about the ironies and attendant responsibilities of free choice.

Title: Whiskey Six Cadenza in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters seven male; four female (doubling) two acts

Set in the town of Blairmore, nestled in the Crowsnest Pass, just after World War I, the play raises questions about the power of parents over the lives of their children, and about the ironies and attendant responsibilities of free choice. Title: Who's Looking After the Atlantic and The Proper Perspective

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - Warren Graves - Alberta playwright

includes: Who's Looking After the Atlantic? The Proper Perspective

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Who's Looking After the Atlantic? in - Who's Looking After the Atlantic? & The Proper Perspective / CCO Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright two characters two male or female one act

"A comic encounter between a psychiatrist and a mildly insane millionaire."

Title: Widger's Way

Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - melodrama - Alberta playwright eleven characters nine male; two female five acts

A melodramatic farce about a stingy father, an innocent love-struck daughter, a murderer on the loose and a bag of gold. Title: Widger's Way

Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - melodrama - Alberta playwright eleven characters nine male; two female five acts

A melodramatic farce about a stingy father, an innocent love-struck daughter, a murderer on the loose and a bag of gold.

Title: Widger's Way in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters nine male; two female five scenes

2 sets.

'A stingy father is given a bag of gold for safekeeping by a mysterious stranger. Complications arising from his greed make him a different man.'

Title: Wild Guys, The

Author: Shaw, Rebecca Wreggitt, Andrew Publisher: Blizzard Publishing

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male two acts

"When four men set off to find an isolated cabin in the forest on a "wildman" weekend, a la Robert Bly, everything that can go wrong does!". Title: Wild Guys, The in - Four by Four by Four / CCO Author: Wreggitt, Andrew Shaw, Rebecca Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male one act

one act version.

"When four men set off to find an isolated cabin in the forest on a "weekend, a la Robert Bly, everything that can go wrong, does!".

Title: Wild West Circus in - The Beast in the Bag and Wild West Circus / CHC Author: Foord, Isabelle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

Description:

roy children - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female one act

A town meeting turns into a battle of wits with the local gunfighter.

Title: Willa and Sam in - Three Quest Plays for Children / CHC Author: James, JoAnne Publisher: Miscellaneous

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roy Canadian - children - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

"Friends are reunited but find that time and distance have separated them. An unusually sensitive and satisfying combination of down-to-earth humor and lyrical fantasy distinguish this fine script, which has enjoyed popular and critical acclaim in performance." Title: William the Bard

Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1997

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roy comedy - Alberta playwright all male cast; two characters two male one act

"A sweetly tragic comedy based on actual historic events. In order to win the respect of his Shakespearean scholar father, William Ireland becomes one of the world's most prolific and unlikely forgers."

First produced in 1997 at Varscona theatre, Edmonton.

Title: With Bells On

Author: Hagen, Darrin Publisher: Miscellaneous 2012

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roy Canadian - Christmas - comedy - Alberta playwright - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male (one tall, one normal height) one act

running time: 60 min.; setting: an elevator in an urban high-rise, a few days before Christmas.

"With Bells On" is an unconventional Christmas comedy about two neighbours - one a mild-mannered accountant, the other a giant drag queen on her way to a pageant - who get stuck in their high-rise apartment elevator. He is a mild-mannered accountant with persistent bad luck who heads out for his first night of

Title: Witness to a Conga in - Witness to a Conga and other plays / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press

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roy dramatic comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters two male; four female one act

A young gentleman’s attempts to draw connections among his circle of acquaintances produces results charged with gravity and uproariousness in equal measure. It’s a thoughtfully combustible look at living up to the music which invades your life. Title: Witness to a Conga and Other Plays

Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press 2011

Description:

roy - collection - Stewart Lemoine - Canadian - Alberta playwright

includes: Witness to a Conga The Occulist's Holiday Happy Toes

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Wizard of the Wind, The

Author: McDonald, Gary Publisher: Miscellaneous

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nonroy manuscript - children - fairy tale - Alberta playwright five characters one male; four female one act

The entire action of the play takes place in and about the princess's castle. The setting consists of three rostrum triangular shaped boxes arranged to suit the needs of the actors. One of these boxes serves as the crown case. They should be placed no more than two yards apart. It is suggested as well that the play be presented in the round to an audience number which should not exceed two hundred.

Title: Wobbling Madonna

Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2002

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roy drama -monologues - women - suicide - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

running time: 30 minutes.

'Frances, a resilient, bird-like prairie mom, arrives at her daughter's crummy little apartment to wipe the blood off the bathroom walls after a suicide attempt. She tries to find the words to express her anger and fear and comfort her daughter by telling her about their first Christmas together.' Title: Wolf Plays, The

Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1993

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - contemporary - drama - Brad Fraser - Alberta playwright

collection contains: Wolfboy Prom Night Of The Living Dead

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Wolf Plays, The

Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1993

Description:

roy - Canadian - collection - contemporary - drama - Brad Fraser - Alberta playwright

collection contains: Wolfboy Prom Night Of The Living Dead

See separate entries for further description of each play.

Title: Wolfboy in - The Wolf Plays / CCO Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1993

Description:

roy drama - mental illness - relationships - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act

'Relationship between two troubled young men in psychiatric hospital ends in violence.' Title: Woods, The in - The Mill / CCO Author: Beagan, Tara Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

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roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - Alberta playwright⌦eight characters; extras five male; three female one act

The mill does not yet exist in "The Woods", and the land is the site of a First Nations burial ground. The interactions between the First Nations people and the first settlers put the wheel in motion for the terror that will haunt this area for hundreds of years to come. roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters; extras

Title: Work Play, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - contemporary - Alberta playwright all male cast; two characters two male one act

A young man has a questionable job interview.

Title: Would You Like a Cup of Tea? in - Four New Comedies / CCO Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987

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roy Canadian - comedy - relationships - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

"A fallen English gentleman and his long-time batman have co-existed in the same flat for years. Their routine lifestyle is interrupted when they awaken to their need for female companionship." Title: Wreck of the National Line in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works: Volume One / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Clinton, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy children - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters; flexible casting three male; two female one act

music by Robert Clinton.

No description available.

Title: Wrecked in - Naked at School / YCL Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy young adult - alcohol and drugs - Alberta playwright four characters two boys; two girls one act

"This collection tackles the weighty issues of suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, and sex and pregnancy in the lives of teens and their families with intelligent humour and candid reality."

Title: Wrecked in - Rites of Passage / CCO Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy young adult - alcohol and drugs - Alberta playwright four characters two boys; two girls one act

"This collection tackles the weighty issues of suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, and sex and pregnancy in the lives of teens and their families with intelligent humour and candid reality." Title: Writer's Block

Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: B house 2008

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts

The play follows a playwright, who after experiencing writer's block, submits a claim to his theatre's insurance company for long-term disability (for writer's block!). His claim gets accepted, and at the same time his muse is released and he writes the best play he's written in years.

Title: Yes, Dear

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Samuel French 1967

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

1 interior set.

Youthful parents suddenly feel old when they realize their children are now adults. This is what happens to John and Marie Grant while they are preparing for the 21st birthday of their daughter. In the privacy of their bedroom, John reverts to the clown he was as a young man and sweeps Marie along with him into sheer zest of being alive. They realize that, for each other, they will

Title: Yes, Dear

Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Samuel French 1967

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

1 interior set.

Youthful parents suddenly feel old when they realize their children are now adults. This is what happens to John and Marie Grant while they are preparing for the 21st birthday of their daughter. In the privacy of their bedroom, John reverts to the clown he was as a young man and sweeps Marie along with him into sheer zest of being alive. They realize that, for each other, they will